Jul 10, 2020
“Sometimes it takes a while to actually hear yourself talk and to have the courage to listen. Sometimes it takes a while to unburden your various anxieties of influence, to stop admiring others and to get on with your own thing. Sometimes it takes a while to map out how the physical places that have culturally and socially shaped your life creatively fit together. And sometimes a novel you have been trying to figure out how to write your whole adult life comes out in the middle of a pandemic. But that, of course, is a different essay.”
- Sameer Pandya’s piece “Writing My Own “Indian-American Novel” Meant Looking to California”, read at Lithub.
