Podcast appearances and mentions of chaya bhuvaneswar

Massachusetts author Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing psychiatrist in the Boston area who joins a long tradition of doctors who have written poetry and fiction while pursuing a life in medicine. Her debut story collection White Dancing Elephants was the winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize in 2017, and was selected for the list of  "35 Over 35" Debut Books in 2018. In this episode, Chaya reads an excerpt from her story "Wormhole," which was published in the Southern Humanities Review.    https://www.chayabhuvaneswar.com/Support the show

A panel discussion with Chaya Bhuvaneswar, a psychiatrist and author of White Dancing Elephants, who has treated postpartum patients in-hospital, including at a forensic psych ward for women awaiting trial for harming their children. Sharline Chiang is a writer, editor, book coach, publicist, and journalist who wrote, among many other articles, Don't Call It Baby Blues, the only existing online magazine article on Asian American survivors of postpartum depression. Kathryn Gahl is the author of The Yellow Toothbrush, a look at anxiety, depression, OCD, and paranoid thinking through the eyes of a mother whose daughter is experiencing a jail sentence after committing filicide. Thank you, viewers and listeners, for helping to make Writer Mother Monster a safe space for our guests to share their stories as we come together tonight to illuminate and complicate what we think we know about postpartum psychosis and depression. Support the showIf you appreciate what you hear, consider becoming a patron/ess of Writer Mother Monster. Depending upon your level of support, you can tell me who you want to hear and topics you'd like to hear about, send me questions for guests in advance of interviews, receive a letter of thanks, a signed book–and more! Thank you for contributing to WMM's sustainability. www.writermothermonster.com/donate/

Episode 143 Notes and Links to Neema Avashia's Work       On Episode 143 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Neema Avashia, and the two discuss, among other topics, her lifelong love of words, books as sources of comfort and disappointment, formative writers like Abraham Verghese and Salman Rushdie, her own writing and its strengthening through workshops and writers' groups and through her work as an educator and activist, her book as a direct response to uneven and often wrong depictions of South Asians and more diverse Appalachian communities, the ways in which the book's diverse chapters coalesce, and salient ideas of home and belonging.       Neema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia to Indian immigrant parents, and she has been a civics and history teacher in the Boston Public Schools since 2003. She is the author of Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, published in March 2022. Neema Avashia's Website   Buy Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place   Neema is Profiled for CNN by Harmeet Kaur-“What it was like to grow up in Appalachia for a child of Indian immigrants” from July 14, 2022   Neema's Article for Lithub from Jan. 2021- “The Deep Connection of West Virginia's Indian Community”           At about 1:55, Neema sets Pete straight on the correct pronunciation of    At about 2:15, Neema discusses her childhood relationship with words-with Gujarati and English, her favorite books, etc.-and she    At about 6:10, Neema discusses reading as a way of exploring life outside of her small town, and highlights a seminal moment recently with hometown librarians    At about 8:05-10:20, Neema responds to Pete's question about representation; she cites racist and factually-wrong references to South Asian people in pop culture    At about 10:20, Neema describes moments in which writing became a love and a possible profession for her   At about 11:15, Neema talks about writers and writing that gave (and gives) her “chills at will,” including the formative Salman Rushdie   At about 13:05, Neema is asked how teaching informs her writing, and vice versa, and she gives background on how her writing career has had stops and recent starts    At about 14:35, Neema explains how a lot of her inspiration for her book, Another Appalachia, is in direct response to the book and hoopla from JD Vance's    At about 16:35, Neema further expands on how she has learned “clarity” through teaching    At about 18:45, Neema responds to Pete's question about Neema's school community's reactions to her book publication   At about 20:15, Neema answers Pete's questions about books that have resonated with her students over the years-she highlights Jason Reynolds and Elizabeth Azevedo's work   At about 21:20, Pete and Neema discuss contextualizing works that resonate with young readers when    At about 23:55, Neema explains how her essays were found to have a “throughline” and how Grub Street Writers and Kenyon Writer's Workshop (and mentors like Geeta Kothari) help the book crystallize    At about 26:20, Pete compliments the book's opening and asks about Neema's rationale for its second person usage   At about 28:30, The two discuss a pivotal early passage about patriotism and “returning home”   At about 30:30, Neema discusses Appalachian tropes and how she balanced what people previously thought they knew about the region with counter examples    At about 34:30, Neema discusses the wonderful CNN documentary done by W. Kamau Bell and how she was profiled for the CNN website   At about 36:10, The two discuss the book's second chapter/essay and her parents' move to the United States and the two discuss connections to the great Abraham Verghese's work   At about 38:10, Neema speaks glowingly of the “masterpiece of a book,” Cutting for Stone, as well as Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See   At about 38:40, Pete references Chaya Bhuvaneswar's fictional account of the 1984 Bhopal explosion in discussing with Neema the horrific tragedy and her father's working for Union Carbide    At about 42:30, Pete highlights the juxtapositions and comparisons between mother and daughter and mother and father that make the book stellar   At about 43:50, Pete and Neema discuss the “moment-in-time” essence of the profile of Neema's Indian “aunties” in the third chapter   At about 45:15, Pete and Neema discuss the salient chapter regarding Neema's connections to Wilt Chamberlain (and underhanded free throws) and the importance of supportive mentorship   At about 49:20, Pete asks Neema about how she sees any distinctions between “less than” and “different”   At about 50:10, The two discuss the painful chapter that deals with the wonderful relationship with “Mr. B.” and his family and the implications of the ensuing and ongoing hateful narratives that have coupled with the growing influence of social media   At about 55:30, The two discuss ideas of “coming home” in the essay that deals with Neema's bringing her partner Laura to Neema's various homes; also, the two talk about a cool connection and memories attached to Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's “Islands in the Stream”    At about 57:30, Neema gives background on her ritual enacted to remember her beloved cousin after his death    At about 1:00:25, Neema explains hireath and its connection to a chapter in the book; the conversation moves to saudade, the Portuguese concept that informs much of the book   At about 1:02:20, Neema delves into the ideas connected to sharam and links between her writing and her cousin's social media livelihood   At about 1:05:00, Pete and Neema discuss ideas of shame on Sept 12, 2001 from Hasan Minhaj's Homecoming King   At about 1:07:05, The two discuss the book's last chapter with the quote, “ ‘I am from here, but no of here' ” as a launch pad   At about 1:10:30, Neems talks about upcoming projects-(“Be Like Wilt” as a children's book? Yes, please!)   At about 1:13:30, Neema gives out her contact info and social media info while shouting out independent bookstores    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. 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With today's guest Jason Ockert, Lobo and Trash discuss the books they won't touch and why. From deadly wallpaper to inscrutable classics, and from gratuitous violence to too-long tomes, they dive into what makes a book unreadable. 1. Shadows from the Walls of Death documentary: https://vimeo.com/525589368 2. Weird Short Stories for Strange Times: https://lithub.com/weird-short-story-writers-for-strange-times/ 3. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: https://www.amazon.com/Friday-Black-Kwame-Adjei-Brenyah-author/dp/1787476014/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1656079529&sr=1-1 4. White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar: https://www.amazon.com/White-Dancing-Elephants-Chaya-Bhuvaneswar/dp/1945814616 5. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu: https://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Known-Monsters-21st-Century/dp/1951142993 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo: https://www.amazon.com/Pedro-Paramo-Juan-Rulfo/dp/0802133908/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GVHBLRZ33PP5&keywords=pedro+paramo&qid=1656100161&sprefix=pedro+paramo%2Caps%2C449&sr=8-1 To Live by Yu Hua: https://www.amazon.com/Live-Novel-Yu-Hua-ebook/dp/B000XU8DU6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NTBTK0NERY6Q&keywords=to+live+yu+hua&qid=1656100225&sprefix=to+live%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-1 To Live, film adaptation directed by Zhang Yimou: https://g.co/kgs/vGpqkN Things we lost in the fire, by Mariana Enriquez: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=things+we+lost+in+the+fire+mariana+enriquez&crid=6PAGLUQJ0OLM&sprefix=things+we+lost%2Caps%2C189&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_6_14 Wallander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallander_(Swedish_TV_series)

(April 14) Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer and PEN American award finalist for her debut collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES, which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best Short Story Collection. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, The Millions, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Squaw Valley/ Community of Writers and Sewanee Writers Workshop. Chaya has 2 kids, age 9 and 12 and describes writer-motherhood as arduous, irrational and fun. Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors.Support the show

Show Notes and Links to Chaya Bhuvaneswar's Work and Allusions/Texts from Episode 57 On Episode 57, Pete welcomes Chaya Bhuvaneswar, the brilliant craftswoman of White Dancing Elephants, the award-winning short story collection. Pete and Chaya talk about inspiring writers, Chaya's influences and great mentorship from legendary writers, her diverse and not-so diverse experiences growing up in Queens, the ways in which her writing has been informed by her knowledge of religious texts, themes in her short story collection, the power of second-person narration, and much more.   Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose story collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS was a 2019 finalist for the PEN/ American Bingham Debut Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, The Millions, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics, other myths and histories, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. Her book received coverage on the LA Times books section front page, NPR and other national outlets, and is available for purchase at bookshop.org, Amazon,org or your local indie bookstore!   Buy Chaya Bhuvaneswar's White Dancing Elephants (Bookshop) Buy Chaya Bhuvaneswar's White Dancing Elephants (Amazon) NPR Article Reviewing Chaya's White Dancing Elephants Chaya Bhuvaneswar's Website Starred Review in Kirkus for White Dancing Elephants   At around 3:00, Chaya talks about her influences growing up-including her upbringing in Flushing, Queens, and its racial diversity that was in contrast to her high school's lack thereof;  she also talks about how growing up in an environment rich with exposure to Buddhism and Hinduism shaped her   At around 9:00, talks about the writers, including Min Jin Lee and Victor LaValle, who have explored the “distance” between growing up in racially and ethnically-diverse neighborhoods and attending schools lacking that diversity    At around 10:50, Chaya talks about how the religious texts she was exposed to as a kid informed her writing and worldview, and how the Amar Chitra Katha series of comics was influential in her future storytelling    At around 15:30, Chaya talks about the balance between enjoying the wonderful epics and tales of India, such as Kathasaritsagara, and avoiding them being used for nationalistic and discriminatory purposes   At around 17:10, Chaya talks about Edward Said's Orientalism and its connection to the caste system of India, especially with regards to how the British “gave weight to ancient ideas” about India   At around 22:30, Chaya talks about her “ideal reader” as one of conscience and awareness   At around 23:25, Chaya talks about being multilingual and how her ability to read and/or write other languages have informed her reading and writing styles   At around 25:25, Chaya talks about her study of Sanskrit, and its connection to discussions around    At around 28:40, talks about the texts and writers who have given her “chills at will,” including Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jericho Brown, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Evie Shockley, Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, Nicole Sealey, and Maggie Smith (particularly for her “Good Bones”)   At around 34:00, Chaya reads an excerpt from “Good Bones”   At around 34:45, Chaya talks about her appreciation for Seamus Heaney   At around 36:45, Pete and Chaya exchange Louise Erdrich recommendations, including “The Painted Drum” and “The Red Convertible”    At around 38:45, Chaya talks about her medical background and how her outlook has changed through working as a psychiatrist, especially during this pandemic; she references another brilliant writer/medical professional, Nawal El Saadawi, and how her treatment in the press is emblematic of clumsiness in treatment of non-white women who are doctors and writers   At around 44:30, we have an ad from friends of The Chills at Will Podcast,Get Lit Podcast   At around 47:40, Chaya talks about how she caught the writing bug and how she learned that she was a skilled writer; she also talks about inspiration from the great Ved Mehta, whom she recently wrote about for LitHub, Seamus Heaney, Salman Rushdie, and Wole Soyinka   At around 54:00, Chaya talks about “to agent” or “not to agent” and the success of Deeshaw Philyaw as a possible harbinger of change in the pub world's view of small presses; Philyaw's debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction   At around 55:30, Chaya talks about her short-story collection, White Dancing Elephants, and the ordering of the 17 stories, with great help from her wonderful editor, Michelle Dotter   At around 58:00, Chaya talks about the significance and genesis of the title of her title story from White Dancing Elephants, including its connection to the Buddha and his mother   At around 1:04:40, Pete and Chaya discuss stories within stories from her collection, and Chaya describes her thought process in writing “The Story of the Woman Who Fell in Love with Death"   At around 1:07:15, Chaya discusses the story “Talinda,” including some self-doubt that crept up when she was writing it   At around 1:15:00, Chaya reads from “Talinda”   At around 1:21:00, Chaya talks about how aftermath comes into play in her story collection and the importance of “twisty endings” and “sticking the ending”-”Heitor” and “Talinda” are used as examples   At around 1:22:40, Chaya discusses the story “Bhopal, 1984” and its historical basis    At around 1:25:00, Chaya discusses her use of second-person in some of her writing   At around 1:26:40, Pete highlights some standout writing from Chaya, and Chaya describes “invisible prose”   At around 1:29:35, Chaya discusses the story “Adristakama” and its connection to multiple meanings that can be derived    At around 1:33:00, Chaya reads another excerpt from “Talinda”   At around 1:35:00, Chaya discusses upcoming projects, including an adult novel, a young adult novel, and a memoir that she is working on   You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Welcome to the second episode of DesiBooks. In addition to the usual roundup of new and notable South Asian books, short stories, poems, essays, interviews, events, and awards, we'll be hearing from the physician and writer, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, about her favorite desi books. Transcript and all links: https://jennybhattwriter.com/2020/04/13/desibooks-podcast-episode-2/. Follow on Twitter: @DesiBooks. Email at: hellodesibooks@gmail.com. The episode page will be up with all links within the next 24 hours. Thanks for listening. Tune in next weekend for episode 3. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/desibooks/support

The Story of the Woman Who Fell in Love with Death, by Chaya Bhuvaneswar. A young boy immerses himself in story, trying to find meaning and wholeness after his sister goes missing. (Content note: contains references to child abuse and gendered violence.) (This story first appeared in The Bangalore Review in 2016, and is included in the 2018 collection White Dancing Elephants.) Bonus Interview: Subscribers to the Likewise Media Patreon campaign can hear an interview with author Chaya Bhuvaneswar. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RadioPublic | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Donate via PayPal | Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Email | Newsletter | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a physician and writer. I read Chaya’s short story collection White Dancing Elephants this spring and really enjoyed it, both because of the way it centered South Asian and women’s stories, and for the complex, complicated relationships at the heart of each story. In our conversation, Chaya and I talked about White Dancing Elephants; about Seamus Heaney, punishment, and complicity; and about whose stories get called “dark.” Then for the second segment, we talked about some of Chaya’s favorite poets, and why poetry is important to her. (Conversation recorded May 25, 2019.) Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes: Chaya Bhuvaneswar Chaya Bhuvaneswar - White Dancing Elephants: Dzanc Books | IndieBound ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition - Meet the Authors: Chaya Bhuvaneswar Seamus Heaney - “Punishment” Bog body Keep the Channel Open - Episode 87: David Bowles Gloria Anzaldúa A. K. Ramanujan Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa - This Bridge Called My Back Danez Smith Kahlil Gibran - “On Children” Between the Covers - Chaya Bhuvaneswar: White Dancing Elephants Ashis Nandy - The Intimate Enemy Jallianwala Bagh massacre Diana Abu-Jaber Jhumpa Lahiri Angie Thomas Naben Ruthnum - Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race Gina Apostol Kiese Laymon Seamus Heaney - North Derek Walcott Marianne Moore Native American History and Culture: Boarding Schools Chaya Bhuvaneswar - “On Eliot” Eavan Boland Rabindranath Tagore Octavio Paz Rainer Maria Rilke Kaveh Akbar Fatimah Asghar Adrienne Rich Rupi Kaur Maggie Smith Chelsea Dingman Patricia Spears Jones Danez Smith - “summer, somewhere” Nicole Sealey Tiana Clark Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes - American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Melissa Febos Melissa Febos - “Thesmophoria” Transcript

On this, our first episode of The Substance of Influence episodes, David speaks with fiction writer and poet Chaya Bhuvaneswar, winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize for her first book White Dancing Elephants. They discuss authorial voice, being a reader and a writer, influence in general, direct influence in particular with Chaya's selection of the novel Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and, of course, her wonderful collections of short stories.  You can find Chaya and her work at  https://chayabhuvaneswar.com/ and on Twitter @chayab77  As always you can find us here at http://www.booksofsomesubstance.com/  and on Twitter & Instagram: @booksosubstance 

Gen and Jette discuss Chaya Bhuvaneswar's short story collection, White Dancing Elephants - a collection of stories spotlighting diverse women of colour that face sexual harassment and racial violence, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. White Dancing Elephants explores feminist, queer, religious, and immigrant stories with precision, drama, and compassion. Show Notes: Follow Chaya on Twitter @chayab77 or check out her website - www.chayabhuvaneswar.com Gen was almost right in recounting the Bhopal disaster but may have mixed up a few other disasters. Go check it out as people of that era focused on Chernobyl and this story seems to have been mostly forgotten. Follow our social media for an upcoming giveaway!!

“Bhuvaneswar is unflinching about the lives of those for whom identity is a constant battle & the act of being is an unavoidable challenge, but she doesn’t ignore the beauty in their strength . . . White Dancing Elephants is a necessary book — & one that introduces a gifted voice to contemporary literature.”―NPR “White Dancing […] The post Chaya Bhuvaneswar : White Dancing Elephants appeared first on Tin House.

Author Chaya Bhuvaneswar talks to Daniel Ford about her debut short story collection White Dancing Elephants. To learn more about Chaya Bhuvaneswar, visit her official website or follow her on Twitter. Read our review of white Dancing Elephants in October's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and OneRoom.

In the most clarifying conversation James has had about the process of learning to be a writer, Sarah Ann Strickley discusses her story collection, FALL TOGETHER, as well as the dangers of the Muse, the joys of plot and structure, finding your voice, giving up your heroes, and being Superman's neighbor. Plus, they nerd out over Marilynne Robinson's HOUSEKEEPING. Then, past guests provide summer reading recommendations.  - Sarah Anne Strickley: https://www.sarahannestrickley.com/ Sarah and James discuss:  Ian Stansel  Raymond Carver  The Cure  Joy Division  The University of Iowa  Emerson College  Joseph Campbell  Darrell Spencer  COUNTRY DARK by Chris Offutt HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson "Hover" by Nell Freudenberger Karen Russell  Carmen Maria Machado Laura van den Berg  Fortress of Solitude  Superman  Superman's Neighbor - Summer Reading Recommendations:  Julia Fine, author of WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (ep. 58)  THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton THE WAKE by Paul Kingsnorth  INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt  Xhenet Aliu, author of BRASS (ep. 50)  WATCHMEN written by Alan Moore, art by David Gibbons, colorist John Higgins  A RIVER OF STARS by Vanessa Hua  THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon  Patrick Crerand, author of THE PAPER LIFE THEY LEAD (ep. 56)  PANORAMA by Steve Kistulentz  BRAZEN CREATURE by Anne Barngrover BAD STORIES by Steve Almond PRIEST DADDY by Patricia Lockwood  THE INFORMATION by James Gleick Mark Powell, author of SMALL TREASONS (ep. 11)  FLORIDA by Lauren Groff  WARLIGHT by Michael Ondaatje  OUTLINE by Rachel Cusk  MY LIFE AS A RUSSIAN NOVEL by Emmanuel Carrere  KINGDOM by Emmanuel Carrere  BLUETS by Maggie Nelson THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA by Philip Roth  Kirstin Chen, author of BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE (ep. 55)  MOTHER OF INVENTION by Caeli Wolfson Widger  SUICIDE CLUB by Rachel Heng  AN OCEAN OF MINUTES by Thea Lim  WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS by Chaya Bhuvaneswar  Aja Gabel, author of THE ENSEMBLE (ep. 59)   CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS by Sally Rooney  A SEPARATION by Katie Kitamura  Michael Nye, author of ALL THE CASTLES BURNED (ep. 52)  ASYMMETRY by Lisa Halliday  SWEET & LOW by Nick White  INDIAN HORSE by Richard Wagamese  REMEMBERING POETS by Donald Hall   Annie Hartnett, author of RABBIT CAKE (ep. 30)  THERE, THERE by Tommy Orange  WHO IS VERA KELLY? by Rosalie Knecht  THE LITTLE STRANGER by Sarah Waters  THE WORLD OF TOMORROW by Brendan Matthews  LESS by Andrew Sean Greer  THE MARS ROOM by Rachel Kushner  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/