Podcast appearances and mentions of Madhuri Vijay

Madhuri Vijay reads an excerpt from her novel "The Far Field," with an original Storybound remix. Madhuri Vijay was born and raised in Bangalore. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Non-Required Reading, Narrative Magazine, and Elle India, among many other publications. The Far Field is her first book, and won the second JCB Prize for Literature, India’s most prestigious literary award.  Storybound is hosted by Jude Brewer and brought to you by The Podglomerate and Lit Hub Radio. Let us know what you think of the show on Instagram and Twitter @storyboundpod. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Storybound, you might enjoy reading, writing, and storytelling. We'd like to suggest you also try the History of Literature or Book Dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ulka Anjaria and Madhuri Vijay sit down to talk about Madhuri's prize-winning first novel The Far Field. They discuss what it's like to write intimately about a place – Kashmir – that many people even within India know only through headlines and news stories. Getting intimate with a place moves us into talking about the Indian novelist as a guide to Indian society. Sometimes guiding readers reflects a legacy of cultural imperialism where writers in the Global South gain prestige and fame from addressing audiences in Europe and the United States. Other times guiding readers enables citizens of India to see regions of conflict, like Kashmir, with more sensitivity rather than sensationalism. The serious overtones of the conversation relax into reflecting on the pleasures of creating fictional characters and watching them grow as if they were real people independent of the writer. Ulka and Madhuri reflect on the urge to read and write stories where relationships are hard and not everything is a damn metaphor! In our search for a metaphor-free zone, we did not have to go to any far field. Turns out it was right there in mother-daughter relationships and the less dignified aspects of parenting. As Madhuri says, the silly is much harder for the novelist to get right than the serious! Mentioned in the Episode Ismat Chughtai Anita Desai Salman Rushdie Arundhati Roy Kashmir Conflict Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ulka Anjaria and Madhuri Vijay sit down to talk about Madhuri’s prize-winning first novel The Far Field. They discuss what it’s like to write intimately about a place – Kashmir – that many people even within India know only through headlines and news stories. Getting intimate with a place moves us into talking about the IndianContinue reading "1.3 Oh, The Places You’ll Go: Madhuri Vijay talks to Ulka Anjaria (AV)"

New guest Mina speaks with Jenny about her 2021 reading goals, a book club with an amazing life of its own, and books we've read and liked recently.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 214: Extreme Hiking. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel JoyceThe Liar's Dictionary by Eley WilliamsWhere the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderesch32 Yolks by Eric RipertThe Far Field by Madhuri VijayOther mentions:Sea Glass by Anita ShreveThe Sellout by Paul BeattyDeacon King Kong by James McBrideSharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong WashburnFamily Ingredients (PBS show)Example of extreme hiking - Waipio ValleyA Children's Bible by Lydia MilletTender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah MosesPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeArticle mentioned about Piranesi and quarantineInterior Chinatown by Charles YuThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettWe Ride Upon Sticks by Quan BarryLeave the World Behind by Rumaan AlamJonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna ClarkePop Sugar Reading ChallengeThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel JoyceThe Music Shop by Rachel JoyceScrawl BooksKCRW Bookworm - Douglas StuartGreenlights by Matthew McConaugheyShuggie Bain by Douglas StuartTelephone by Percival EverettRelated episodes:Episode 084 - A Worthy Tangent with Bryan Alexander Episode 102 - The Reading Women Reading Envy Crossover Episode Episode 183 - Birthing Rabbits with JessicaEpisode 192 - Sly Milieu with ThomasEpisode 211 - Rereads and Romance with KimStalk us online: Mina at GoodreadsMina is @minamina0907 on InstagramJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Madhuri Vijay reads an excerpt from her novel "The Far Field", with sound design and music composition from French Cassettes. Madhuri Vijay was born and raised in Bangalore. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Non-Required Reading, Narrative Magazine, and Elle India, among many other publications. The Far Field is her first book, and won the second JCB Prize for Literature, India’s most prestigious literary award.  French Cassettes are a harmony driven power pop rock quartet out of the Bay Area. Their new album, Rolodex, is just out and can be found at fullfrenchy.com. This episode samples their song, Utah.  This episode is brought to you by Chanel. A visionary woman who's influence on the arts continues even today, Gabrielle Chanel created her life and her legend on her own terms. Discover her story at insidechanel.com. Storybound is hosted by Jude Brewer and brought to you by The Podglomerate and Lit Hub Radio. Let us know what you think of the show on Instagram and Twitter @storyboundpod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We take a look back at our reading life in 2020: our challenges, our wins, and of course, our favorite books. Highlights from the year:Fiction: The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, and Nothing to See Here by Kevin WilsonNon-fiction: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Boys and Sex by Peggy Orenstein, and Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife’s Story by Onnie Lee Logan as told to Katherine ClarkMost enjoyable: Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas on audio, One to Watch by Kate London-Stayman, and Bringing Down the Duke and A Rogue of One’s Own, both by Evie DunmoreMemoir: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, Know My Name by Chanel Miller, and Sitting Pretty by Rebecca TaussigAudio: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, Know My Name by Chanel Miller, and Sitting Pretty by Rebecca TaussigRead aloud: The Wild Robot and Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown, The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall, The Vanderbeekers of 141st St by Karina Glaser, The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen CushmanLooking forward to: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia HibbertLife latelySarah shares a story of E’s glasses lost, then found.Abby is in a Christmas crafting mood.Reading latelySarah read Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford, which she found through the New York Times Best Books of 2020.Abby loved escaping into the alternate reality of Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld. Here’s the article that compares the book to reality.Eating latelyAbby added corn pudding to her family’s Thanksgiving, but it was not a success.Sarah is devouring spinach and artichoke dip as fast as she can make it.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment on our show notes, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Boozing, Brett Crehan gives us a behind-the-scenes look at shooting an Instagram commercial with retired NBA power forward Brian Scalabrine for his Scal's Vodka Lemonade. That’s right, the White Mamba himself.  Then, during Boozing Through The New Yorker, the pair dissect Madhuri Vijay’s “You Are My Dear Friend, which appeared in the Aug. 17 issue of the metropolitan magazine. The story can be found here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/you-are-my-dear-friend And don’t forget to subscribe to our various channels. Subscribe to us on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boozing-through-lit/id964603033 Subscribe to us on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/boozingthroughlit Subscribe to us on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/boozing-through-lit

Madhuri Vijay reads his story from the August 17, 2020, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “The Far Field,” which won the J.C.B prize for literature in 2019. 

In conversation with Mita Kapur, Madhuri Vijay speaks of the craft of fiction and shares her inspirations and learnings while writing her first book. Find out about her journey and learnings only on #JLFBraveNewWorld.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens, what emotional threads get pulled when halfway around the globe a father gets sick from Covid? In an evocative personal essay for The New Yorker, My Father's Voice from Paris, novelist Alexander Maksik faces those questions and all the attendant thoughts and feelings provoked by them. Living in Maui with his wife, the novelist Madhuri Vijay, and his 6-month-old daughter Ela, Maksik's only contact with his father was through the phone. He listened as his father grew weaker knowing he could not go to him. It is both a story for our time and a timeless one about a son's love for a father. In this episode of Beyond the Page, Xander talks with Anne Taylor Fleming, associate director of the Sun Valley Writers' Conference, about the essay, about fatherhood and about Paris, the city both father and son know intimately.            Alexander Maksik is the author of the novels You Deserve Nothing, A Marker to Measure Drift, which was a 2013 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and Shelter in Place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wordt er massaal gelezen nu de cultuurhuizen dicht zijn? Nicky Aerts vraagt het aan boekhandelaar Bart Van Aken. Met Kristin Rogghe duiken we in het werk van de Kameroenese filosoof Achille Mbembe, die momenteel onder vuur ligt in Duitsland. Catherine Vuylsteke las 'Het verre veld' van de Indiase schrijfster Madhuri Vijay. Philippe Van Cauteren, directeur van SMAK vertelt over de gestorven Oostenrijkse kunstenaar en goede vriend, Lois Weinberger.

How we're doing in the time of COVID-19We wanted to check in with each other and listeners to see how everyone is doing two weeks into being at home. We talk about our mental state, how we're coping, and resources for kids that we've found useful. Links we mentioned in this episode:Gourmet MakesSchitt's CreekAudio books through Libby and HooplaThe Wild Robot and The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter BrownStorytime DurhamWonderlab Science MuseumSparkle StoriesArt/Lab at Home with Ms. KadyWe are thinking of you all and hoping you are staying safe and well in this uncertain time.Reading latelySarah read (and loved) The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay and Abby finished the second book of a young adult series, The Map From Here to There by Emery Lord.Eating latelyAbby stocked up on her favorite granola and Sarah made this chocolate banana bread.If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the wake of her mother's untimely death, a young woman from Bangalore--born into a life of privilege--drops everything and travels to the opposite end of India--to the state of Jammu and Kashmir--to search for a long-lost figure from her childhood--an enigmatic Kashmiri man named Bashir Ahmed.What follows is a tale of romance, intrigue, conflict, politics, self-discovery, and tragedy. Readers will find this and much more in the best-selling novel, The Far Field, written by author Madhuri Vijay. The book won the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature, one of India’s most prestigious literary awards. The Washington Post book critic Ron Charles says that The Far Field “offers something essential: a chance to glimpse the lives of distant people captured in prose gorgeous enough to make them indelible — and honest enough to make them real.”This week, Milan speaks with Vijay from her home in Hawaii. They discuss Vijay’s journey as a writer, her decision to set her book in Kashmir, and the surprising connections between her idyllic adopted home of Hawaii and the conflicted state of Jammu and Kashmir.

How best to know a people? Let me count the ways. Madhuri Vijay writes about a Bangalore girl who goes off the beaten paths in Kashmir, looking for a tenuous connection to her past, in her highly acclaimed debut literary novel. Onaiza Drabu retells the stories that the Kashmiri folk tell each other, around the fire, on chilly winter nights. And P. S. Nissim, in reviewing these books, has something to say about how literary fiction contrasts with folk tales. This is episode #5 of Bookasur, connecting two very different treatments of the beautiful state of Kashmir. Books featured: The Far Field, by Madhuri Vijay, published by 4th Estate. The Legend of Himal and Nagrai, by Onaiza Drabu, published by Speaking Tiger. -------- Published 11th Mar 2020. Find out more about Bookasur here: https://www.psnissim.com/p/bookasur.html P.S. Nissim tweets at: https://twitter.com/ps_nissim Title Music: Jazz In Paris by Media Right Productions used under Creative Commons

Autumn and Kendra talk with Madhuri Vijay about her debut novel The Far Field, which is out now from Grove Press. You can find the complete show notes and transcript for this episode over on our website.The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay About the Author: Madhuri Vijay | Website | Buy the Book Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and furchild photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies! CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading WomenTwitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Madhuri and Vik discuss the inspiration behind her first novel, writing in the first person, the Kashmir region of India, favorite bookstores, and much more.

Madhuri Vijay is the guest. Her debut novel, The Far Field, is available now from Grove Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Vijay was born in Bangalore. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her writing has appeared in Best American Non-Required Reading, Narrative Magazine and Salon, among other publications. The Far Field is her first book.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An elegant, epic debut from a tremendous new talent and Pushcart Prize-winner, Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows one young woman’s search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that carries her from cosmopolitan Bangalore in Southern India to the mountains of Kashmir and to the brink of a devastating political and personal reckoning.  In the wake of her mother’s death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him. But as soon as Shalini arrives, she is brought face to face with Kashmir’s dark politics, as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in. And when life in the village turns volatile and old hatreds threaten to erupt into violence, Shalini finds herself forced to make a series of choices that could hold dangerous repercussions for the very people she has come to love. With rare acumen and evocative prose, Vijay masterfully examines Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexuality through the lens of an outsider, offering a profound meditation on grief, guilt, and the limits of compassion.

First Draft interview with author Madhuri Vijay, author of The Far Field

Madhuri Vijay is the author of the novel The Far Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our gust is Madhuri Vijay, author of The Far Field published by Grove Atlantic on January 15th. The Far Field is a book of travel, almost in a picaresque manner, the journey of a woman who is an admixture of the good and bad qualities, we all posses but one with who we can emphasize and whose mistakes are mistakes we have all made, sometimes with unfortunate or even tragic consequences. Shalini, our protagonist is privileged and restless, much like the Buddha, who sets out on a journey from her home in cosmopolitan Bangalore to the mountains of Kashmir, a dangerous Kashmir. She is searching for Bashir Ahmed, a man from her past, who perhaps she loves and perhaps is just a connection between her and her mother, whose tragedy may be the catalyst for this journey. Throughout the book, Shalini makes lots of choices, some of them with pleasant and kind intention. In fact she always seems to mean well. But some of those choices lead to violent and tragic conclusions. Some of the people she meets are enemies and some are friends. It may very well be her naiveté which causes her to make the decisions that she does, but it may be something we as the reader have to figure out ourselves, and as I have said many times before, these are the best of books.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our gust is Madhuri Vijay, author of The Far Field published by Grove Atlantic on January 15th. The Far Field is a book of travel, almost in a picaresque manner, the journey of a woman who is an admixture of the good and bad qualities, we all posses but one with who we can emphasize and whose mistakes are mistakes we have all made, sometimes with unfortunate or even tragic consequences. Shalini, our protagonist is privileged and restless, much like the Buddha, who sets out on a journey from her home in cosmopolitan Bangalore to the mountains of Kashmir, a dangerous Kashmir. She is searching for Bashir Ahmed, a man from her past, who perhaps she loves and perhaps is just a connection between her and her mother, whose tragedy may be the catalyst for this journey. Throughout the book, Shalini makes lots of choices, some of them with pleasant and kind intention. In fact she always seems to mean well. But some of those choices lead to violent and tragic conclusions. Some of the people she meets are enemies and some are friends. It may very well be her naiveté which causes her to make the decisions that she does, but it may be something we as the reader have to figure out ourselves, and as I have said many times before, these are the best of books.

We’re talking about the holidays, how we are handling the cold, dark days, of winter. But mostly, we share the books we have recently read and what’s on deck. We also share tips for finding new books (and ways to fix the old… like nail glue and fixing the pages). Support the podcast by subscribing, rating, and reviewing us. We want to hear from you about your favorite books and what we should read next. Visit the website at friendsinpursuit.com/intention to get your free resource to set your one-word intention for the year. Books mentioned throughout the episode: “Life Changing Art of Tidying Up” – Marie Kondo “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” – Carol Dweck Atomic Habits (What PERCENTAGE do you improve in a year?) “Gifts of Imperfection” – Brene Brown “Becoming” – Michelle Obama “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy” – Anne Lamott “tiny beautiful things” – Cheryl Strayed “Everything happens for a reason and other lies I’ve loved” – Kate Bowler “The Far Field” by Madhuri Vijay