#david chariandy

[pipagaopoetry]

Authors for eSims for Gaza ends tomorrow at 3pm, PST, May 18th

There is still time (24 hours!) to bid on the Authors for eSims auction. All shipping will be covered by the authors. Thank you to Thea Lim and Jody Chan for organizing, with the support of T. Liem.

In a time when moving basic resources like food and cash into Gaza has become virtually impossible due to Israel's ongoing bombardment and blockading of aid, eSims have remained a direct and accessible site of support. More about Crips for eSims for Gaza (a project organized and begun by me, Alice Wong, and Leah Lakshmi-Piepzna Samarasinha). 

People can bid on 170+ very cool items like a draft of an Eden Robinson novel, signed books from Billy-Ray Belcourt, Jessica Johns, David Chariandy, Danez Smith, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Rehearsals for Living, and many naming rights. Also some incredible new releases like Natalie Lim's Elegy for Opportunity and Terese Mason Pierre's Myth. And from me: a 10 page manuscript consultation + behind the poem, as well as a slightly water-damaged copy of echolalia echolalia + battle-worn copy of Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy (do not leave the orange your friend gave you in your bag with a new book for several days 😅…).

As poet Rasha Abdulhadi shares, "This auction isn't for bidding on the value of books. It's a generous opportunity to donate the maximum we can afford to keep Palestinians in Gaza connected to each other & the world, through desolating genocidal siege. We can give accordingly." 

[gennsoup]

She tells me now that she doesn't understand that thing called memory. She doesn't understand its essence of dynamic, and why, especially, it never seems to abide by the rules of time or space or individual consciousness.

David Chariandy, Soucouyant

[soracities]

In Desirea's, you postured but you also played. You showed up every one of your dictated roles and fates. Our parents had come from Trinidad and Jamaica and Barbados, from Sri Lanka and Poland and Somalia and Vietnam. They worked shit jobs, they struggled with rent, were chronically tired, and often pushed just as chronically tired notions about identity and respectability. But in Desirea's, different styles and kinships were possible. You found new language, you caught the gestures, you kept the meanings close as skin.

David Chariandy, Brother

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in June:

1). Veronica (Mary Gaitskill)

2). At Freddie’s (Penelope Fitzgerald)

3). We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)

4). The Map of Love (Ahdaf Soueif)

5). Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Laurie Colwin)

6). A Heart So White (Javier Marías)

7). Earthlings (Sayaka Murata)

8). Real Estate (Deborah Levy)

9). I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections (Norah Ephron)

10). I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (David Chariandy)

[dwellordream]

I'll explain it this way. During our lives, we struggle to forget. And it's foolish to assume that forgetting is altogether a bad thing. Memory is a bruise still tender. History is a rusted pile of blades and manacles. And forgetting can sometimes be the most creative and life-sustaining thing that we can ever hope to accomplish. The problem happens when we become too good at forgetting.

David Chariandy, Soucouyant

[thebluesthour]

She has a small bunch of blue flowers in her hand, a bright blue, an unnameable pretty colour. Singular.

David Chariandy, Brother: A Novel

[book-warehouse-broadway]

It’s finally starting to feel like fall! What are you reading this weekend?

[universitybookstore]

The Toronto Star describes it as, “ a beautiful, frank missive addressed to Chariandy’s 13-year-old, Maya. “ New from Bloomsbury and award-winning Canadian author David Chariandy, I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; A Letter to My Daughter.