Podcast appearances and mentions of akhil sharma

Akhil Sharma reads his story “The Narayans,” from the August 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of the story collection “A Life of Adventure and Delight,” and two novels, “An Obedient Father,” which was published in 2000 and republished, in a revised version, in 2022, and “Family Life,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2016. 

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Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life and A Life of Adventure and Delight. He's a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and has won a bunch of awards including the PEN/Hemingway Award, Guggenheim, and International Dublin Literary Award. He's also a professor at Duke University. Buy Akhil Sharma's novel Family Life Buy Akhil's story collection A Life of Adventure and Delight Read Akhil's Why I hate My Best Short Story in The New Yorker Read Akhil's short story We Didn't Like Him in The New Yorker Listen to convo with Akhil & Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman on TNYer Podcast Rate/review Kurt Vonnegut Radio (this is how you help our show live) More episodes of KVR: Sinead O'Connor Sari Botton Sam Lipsyte Andrew Leland George Saunders Kurt Vonnegut Follow Kurt Vonnegut Radio on podcast app of your choice Find Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Contact Gabe at gabehudsonpod(at)gmail.com Jude Brewer was executive producer and editor for this episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Zombie,” by Joyce Carol Oates, which was published in The New Yorker in 1994. Sharma is the author of the novels “Family Life” and “An Obedient Father,” which will be reissued in a revised version this month.

Of all the guests on Paternal over the years, it's safe to say that Akhil Sharma was the last guy who would have expected to appear on a podcast about fatherhood. Over the past three decades he carved out a nice life as an Ivy League educated investment banker, and then a successful writer and college professor. Fatherhood never really entered the equation because, in his mind, he was worthless when it came to what he could possibly teach a child.  On this episode of Paternal, Sharma reflects on some of the complicated family backstory illustrated in his acclaimed 2014 book Family Life, which the New York Times said “reveals how love becomes warped and jagged and even seemingly vanishes in the midst of huge grief.” Sharma also discusses how a life-altering accident helped define his relationship with his parents, and influenced why he never considered having children until he was in his late 40s. Sharma is a professor at Duke University and the author of the essay A Passage to Parenthood, which appeared in the The New Yorker earlier this year. Learn more about Paternal and sign up for our newsletter at www.paternalpodcast.com. You can also email host Nick Firchau at nick@paternalpodcast.com with any comments or suggestions for men he should profile on the show. Make sure you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening, then keep an eye on your feed for new episodes.

This week we're joined by recurring guest Akhil Sharma, MD. Akhil is currently completing his intern year in Pennsylvania. We discuss residency and research years for applicants. Like, subscribe, comment on the video. We're also on iTunes, Spotify, and any other podcast platform. Links to all of our episodes as well as our platforms can be found at www.orthotalkpod.com References from this episode: None

The U.S. economy seems to be showing real signs of life, and lots of people are finally returning to the labor force—eight hundred and fifty thousand in the month of June alone. At the same time, job resignations are at a record high, and many workers are changing careers. With work life at top of mind, we asked three writers to tell us about the most memorable jobs they've had in the past. Gillian Flynn, the author of novels including “Sharp Objects” and “Gone Girl,” remembers having to wear a frozen-yogurt costume as a teen-ager. Akhil Sharma talks about lying his way into a lucrative gig as a banker, spinning stories that played into ethnic stereotypes, before becoming the author of books such as “Family Life” and “An Obedient Father.” Plus, the cartoonist Alison Bechdel shares how she rewarded herself after her shortest job ever.      This story originally aired on August 25, 2017.

This week we're joined by Akhil "The Real Deal" Sharma. Akhil is a 4th year medical student in Miami that just matched into orthopedics. How happy were you when you found out that you matched? Why does the match not care about your dream scenarios? What would you change about the process? How did doing a research year help you match? What advice would you give to upcoming applicants? Like, subscribe, comment on the video. We're also on iTunes, Spotify, and any other podcast platform. Links to all of our episodes as well as our platforms can be found at www.orthotalkpod.com References from this episode: None

This week we're joined by Akhil "The Real Deal" Sharma. Akhil is a 4th year medical student in Miami that is applying to orthopedics. What is the average virtual interview like? Should virtual interviews be the norm? What were the best interview questions you had? What factors go into making a rank list? What are the most overhyped factors for ranking a program? Does a diverse program need to advertise its diversity? Did anyone ask you about your podcast appearances? Like, subscribe, comment on the video. We're also on iTunes, Spotify, and any other podcast platform. Links to all of our episodes as well as our platforms can be found at www.orthotalkpod.com

This week we're joined by a recurring fan favorite, Akhil "The Real Deal" Sharma. Akhil has joined us in the past to document his application journey to orthopedic surgery residency. This week we check in after universal offer day and before he begins interviews. We bounce around interview questions, talk the do's and dont's of virtual interviews, and even do a bit of a mock interview. Like, subscribe, comment on the video. We're also on iTunes, Spotify, and any other podcast platform. Links to all of our episodes as well as our platforms can be found at www.orthotalkpod.com References from this episode: None from this episode

From migrant workers to British expats, from the hills of Uttaranchal to the heart of Mumbai's metropolis, find out how Udayan captures India's lockdown experience in his timely short story collection.On this episode of Books and Beyond with Bound Season 2, we talk to Udayan Mukherjee about his short story collection, “Essential Items: Stories from a Land in Lockdown”, recently published by Bloomsbury. Udayan shares how writing during the pandemic kept him sane. He finished the book in three months and Tara had the pleasure of editing it!We chat about Udayan’s life in the hills: the people he meets and how they have influenced the stories in his collection. He talks about the importance of capturing our experiences with the lockdown while it is happening. Michelle is inspired to start writing about the pandemic herself! Why does he prefer to write fiction? How has he never owned a smartphone? And does he share writing tips with his brother, the author Neel Mukherjee? Tune in to find out!'Books and Beyond with Bound' is the podcast where Tara Khandelwal and Michelle D'costa of Bound talk to some of the best writers in India and find out what makes them tick.Udayan Mukherjee was born in Calcutta. For two decades, he was the face of the Indian financial markets, as anchor and Managing Editor of CNBC. He is the author of the novel Dark Circles and the crime novel A Death in the Himalayas. He has recently published Essential Items: Stories from a Land in Lockdown, a short story collection with Bloomsbury.Mentions: A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Muhammad Hanif, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin, Akhil Sharma, Raymond Carver, P G Woodhouse, John CheeverYou can get your copy of his book here: https://www.amazon.in/Essential-Items-Stories-Land-Lockdown/dp/9390252210 Tune in every Wednesday for a new episode.Follow Bound on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter: @boundindiaFollow our podcast on Instagram: @boundpodcastsYou can check out our website at https://www.boundindia.com/podcast/

This week we're joined by Akhil Sharma. Akhil is a fourth year medical student in Miami currently applying to orthopedics. We spend the episode recapping his application cycle to this point, how he's handling away rotations during the pandemic, changes to the application process, and online away rotations and webinars. This episode is informative for both students, residents, and faculty! Like, subscribe, comment on the video. We're also on iTunes, Spotify, and any other podcast platform. Links to all of our episodes as well as our platforms can be found at www.orthotalkpod.com References from this episode: none

This week we're joined by Akhil Sharma. Akhil is a fourth year medical student currently applying to orthopedics. We discuss the challenges of applying during a pandemic, his decision to do a research year before applying, and tips for standing out on an ortho rotation! Like, subscribe, comment on the video. We're also on iTunes, Spotify, and any other podcast platform. Links to all of our episodes as well as our platforms can be found at www.orthotalkpod.com References from this episode: Research publications in orthopedic match Kheir, Michael M. MD1; Tan, Timothy L. MD2; Rondon, Alexander J. MD, MBA2; Chen, Antonia F. MD, MBA, AOA3,a The Fate of Unmatched Orthopaedic Applicants, JBJS Open Access: April-June 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 2 - p e20.00043 doi: 10.2106/JBJS.OA.20.00043 https://journals.lww.com/jbjsoa/fulltext/2020/06000/the_fate_of_unmatched_orthopaedic_applicants__risk.21.aspx

Eric talks to award-winning novelist and short story writer Akhil Sharma about writing for the New Yorker since 1997, the works of Anton Chekhov, working on his Folio-prize winning novel, Family Life, for more than a decade, and much much more!  

In this episode of AAWW Radio, we're exploring the craft of the short story with two authors who released short story collections in 2017. The quotidian stories in Akhil Sharma’s new book simmer with a barely hidden, devastatingly emotional undercurrent―and have earned him comparisons to Chekov. Reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, Kanishk Tharoor’s lush and inventive collection ranges from science fiction to historical pastiche, delving into what is lost from environmental collapse and language loss. After Akhil Sharma and Kanishk Tharoor read from their short story collections, they discuss the craft of the short story in a conversation with Meera Nair, cofounder of the reading series Queens Writers Resist and author of the novel Video won the won the 7th Annual Asian-American Literary Award and was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year.

The VICE Magazine Podcast is your definitive guide to enlightening information. We're in the middle of celebrating the release of our 11th annual Fiction Issue. Inside the magazine, we curated a special subsection of personal stories about losing your temper. Akhil Sharma wrote about a bully, Walter Kirn wrote about a rooster, and David Shields and Allen Pearl also participated. But today we're highlighting “Rage Blackouts,” Sadie Stein's personal essay from the section. In Stein's essay, she discusses how small annoying incidents throughout the day (“the whole store-full of old ladies who banged their carts into me at Zabars”) will piss her off, but she smile's through the ordeal, holding it all in. “Then it all comes out at night” in extreme dreams, which includes shouting expletives and punching in her sleep, usually while her husband sleeps next to her (wielding heavy-duty earplugs). Stein stopped by the office to chat about how she deals with her “rage blackouts”—sleeping on airplanes is out of the question—her writing process, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Jeffrey Eugenides’s “Baster,” from a 1996 issue of the magazine.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid reader. Today our guest is Akhil Sharma, author of A Life Of Adventure and Delight, just released by Norton this month. Akhil’s first novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, for which I interviewed him a couple of years ago, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. He is an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at Rutgers. A Life Of Adventure and Delight as David Sedaris says is a book filled with duality. We meet characters that burn us to the heart and those that make us want to laugh out loud. Some we take an immediate dislike to and others we wish we could emulate. But each projects a longing for something, a different way of life, love, or perhaps a life of adventure and delight. All goals we all can identify with. What is different about this book is that we are encountering from across two oceans, characters that are like us yet whose history, religion and culture make us so different from them. And it is the differences that allow us to see more clearly, almost like gravitational lensing, the similarities that flow beneath the skin throughout all races and all cultures.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid reader. Today our guest is Akhil Sharma, author of A Life Of Adventure and Delight, just released by Norton this month. Akhil’s first novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, for which I interviewed him a couple of years ago, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. He is an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at Rutgers. A Life Of Adventure and Delight as David Sedaris says is a book filled with duality. We meet characters that burn us to the heart and those that make us want to laugh out loud. Some we take an immediate dislike to and others we wish we could emulate. But each projects a longing for something, a different way of life, love, or perhaps a life of adventure and delight. All goals we all can identify with. What is different about this book is that we are encountering from across two oceans, characters that are like us yet whose history, religion and culture make us so different from them. And it is the differences that allow us to see more clearly, almost like gravitational lensing, the similarities that flow beneath the skin throughout all races and all cultures.

Ahkil Sharma reads his story from the April 17, 2017, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of two novels, “An Obedient Father” and “Family Life,” for which he won the international Dublin Literary Award in 2016.  His first story collection, “A Life of Adventure and Delight,” will be published in July. 

Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive Podcast. In this episode Akhil Sharma, winner of the 2016 International Dublin literary Award reads from his winning book 'Family Life'. The reading is followed by a Question and Answer session introduced and moderated by Niall MacMonagle. Recorded in front of a live audience in Dublin City Library and Archive on 10 June 2016.

In his presentation, “All About Family Life: Living with Disability,” Akhil Sharma kicks off our monthly Narrative Medicine rounds for Fall 2015. He will talk about writing his most recent book, Family Life, which won the 2015 Folio Prize and was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2014. Sonali Deraniyagala called it “deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender at its core,” adding “Family Life gives us beautiful, heart-stopping scenes where love in [a] family finds air and ease.” Sharma’s previous novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Pen Hemingway Prize. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic and have been widely anthologized. He lives in New York City.

First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview with Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life.

Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tobias Wolff’s “The Night In Question,” from a 1996 issue of the magazine.

The artist Yinka Shonibare MBE talks to Kirsty Lang about his latest work The British Library, a study of immigration in Britain, currently showing at the Brighton Festival. US Novelist Akhil Sharma's new novel Family Life is based on his own family history and the tragedy of his brother's death, so why a novel rather than a memoir? A new report released this morning highlights a significant lack of female film directors on the big and small screen. Drama director Beryl Richards reflects on the findings. And as a new musical version of The Water Babies opens this week at Curve Theatre in Leicester, which features a waterfall, video projections of the performers singing under water and a hologram of Richard E Grant, the director, video designer and one of the actors discuss the mixture of musical theatre and special effects. Producer Jerome Weatherald Image: The British Library by Yinka Shonibare MBE.

Novelist Akhil Sharma tells of prayer and his family life. Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007. His second novel, Family Life, won The 2015 Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award 2016. Sharma is currently a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

"Outstanding…Every page is alive and surprising, proof of [Sharma’s] huge, unique talent."—David Sedaris Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. The Avid Reader is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

Akhil Sharma, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award 2016, for Family Life, in coversation with Niall Mac Monagle. Family Life tells the story of eight-year-old Ajay, whose family move from Delhi to America in 1978. America to the Mishras is everything they could have imagined and more: life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Recorded at Dublin City Library and Archive on 17 June 2016.