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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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About Me
- kuzhali manickavel
- Kuzhali Manickavel wrote a book called 'Insects Are Just like You and Me except Some of Them Have Wings.' She also has an email id and it goes like kuzhali (dot) ehm (at) gmail (dot) com
Buy Insects Are Just Like You and Me except Some of Them Have Wings
What Miranda July Said About My Book
- "Not merely lyrical and strange, but also deadpan funny. I can't shake the feeling that I know this woman, personally—like we hung out at a party or something. But I don't, and we didn't. She's just that good."
What Sarnath Banerjee Said About My Book
What Anna Tambour Said About My Book
What Lisa Gatlin (Arizona Daily Wildcat) Said About My Book
- "Book you've never heard of that was brilliant - "Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings" by Kuzhali Manickavel is a fantastic collection of (very) short stories unlike any other. It plays with words and reality in ways that make you crazy and impressed, plus it's funny and, seriously, just that good."
What Geeta Doctor (India Today) Said About My Book
- "Har! Har! Har!"
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Buy The 'Insects Are Just Like You and Me except Some of Them Have Wings' eBook
Reviews for my eChapbook 'Eating Sugar, Telling Lies'
Buy My eChapbook 'Eating Sugar, Telling Lies'
Short Short Fiction
- Because We Are Precious and Brave (The Cafe Irreal #25)
- Cats and Fish (The Cafe Irreal #25)
- Conversations during a Cyclone and a Flood (Dog Oil Press #25)
- Daily Future Life Predictions from the Hotmalluauntywetsarisexboobs Dotcomcenter Based In the Tropicool Icy-Land Urban Indian Slum (Eyeshot)
- Discuss How India Will Become A Prosperous And Secure Nation In The Next Five Years (NOO Weekly, Nov. 12, 2011)
- Everyone Does Integral Calculus (anderbo, wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2010)
- Firang (mud luscious ten)
- How to Wear an Indian Village (wigleaf)
- Kisi Shayar Something Something (The Cafe Irreal, Issue 31)
- Little Bones (Smokelong Quarterly Issue 18, wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2008)
- Mrs. Krishnan (Smokelong Quarterly, Issue 10)
- Put Your Hand In The Hand of the Man With His Hand in the Hand of the Man With His Hand in the Windmills of Your Mind (Ekleksographia, Wave 2)
- Spare Monsters (Quick Fiction 11, print publication)
- Take a Girl and Put Her in a Natural Setting (PANK 5, print publication)
- The Ash Eaters (Everyday Genius)
- The Four Steps of Standard Plastination (HOBART, Dec. 2009)
- The Importance of Having a Minty-Fresh Export-Quality Aadi Velli Special Non-Cola Cola in the Tropicool Icy Land Urban Indian Slum (HOBART, Dec. 2009)
- The Society for the Preservation of Everything (Smokelong Quarterly, Issue 23)
- The Unviolence of Strangers (Caketrain Issue 4, print publication)
- This Is Us and This Is Us Outside (Out of Print, Issue 1)
- Three Scenarios Leading to the Rape of a Teenage Girl in the Tropicool Icy-land Urban Indian Slum (mud luscious press, print publication, nominated for The Pushcart Prize)
- You Can't and You Don't (PANK 4.08)
Short Fiction
- A Basic Guide To Instigating Violence Among Gentoo Penguins In The Tropicool Icy-Land Urban Indian Slum (DIAGRAM 10.2)
- Anarch (Tehelka's Second Annual Fiction Issue)
- Flying and Falling (Shimmer, The Art Issue, Best American Fantasy 3, print publication)
- Jugni (Versal 8, print publication, nominated for The Pushcart Prize)
- Miraculous (Gambara, 2007)
- Notes Made in Connnection with the Disappearance of a Boy Outside the Tropicool Icy-Land Urban Indian Slum as Investigated by the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (FRiGG, Law & Order Issue)
- Sour Hands (Shimmer, Issue 1, print publication)
- The Butterfly Assassin (Salt Flats Annual, Issue 2)
- The Dolphin King (Per Contra, Winter 2007-2008)
- The Dynamics of Windows (Subtropics, Issue 4)
- The Statue Game (AGNI Online, May 2010)
- The Sugargun Fairy (FRiGG, Summer 2008, first appeared in Cadenza 17 print publication)
- The Underground Bird Sanctuary (Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2011 Issue)
- This Old Man (Going Down Swinging, No. 28, print publication)
- Throwing Rocks at Dogs (Per Contra, Spring 2009)
- We Will All Get Better and Then We Will All Get Worse (Annalemma, Issue 5, print publication)
- Welcome to Barium (DesiLit, Inaugral Issue)
- You Have Us All Late and Follow (Grasslimb Journal, Vol. 6 No. 1, print publication)
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21 comments:
Dear Mrs. Kuzhali,
We will miss you much. We will await your coming back in the return at the earliest convenience two months from now. Until them we will be stoic and composed.
Ok baay
Why oh why but why?????????
Adhar Pranam,
Sachita
nooooooooooooooooooooo why why why you do this why: so loyally we are waiting and waiting, and then just one big slap we get...sadfeel in my heart. but you know, happy holidays and such :)
I hope the leave taking is for entirely splendid reasons and full of marshamallowy unicorny hearty rainbowy lovely nessess.
Also, when I left this tab open it said "Kuzhali Manic..." which can be your punk alter ego.
Hwhat? Hwhy???!! How can... I mean... I don't even. *takes blade from 'For Use on Wrists' drawer*an... I mean... I don't even. *takes blade from 'For Use on Wrists' drawer*
@ anonymous- dear mrs. anonymous, i will also miss you much and look forward to coming back in the return okbai
@ sachita- wottodo min but to quote aulde perfume bottle, je reviens. or something. please be rocking and enjoy the life
@anonymous2- please dont feel the sadfeel :( please be full happy in your heart and always be rocking and enjoy life
@ sara crowley- ohai my friend!!11 i hope my leavetaking will be full of those things also. how it is? it is fine? it is better to ask you these questions in email? i think so yes
@longblackveil- please do not do such things because i feel it is much against our culture to engage with blades and drawers in this manner. i look forward to seeing you again once more again when i come back in the return jai hind
I will fade away until i am almost completely white with grief at your absence.
but why? :|
I hurted.
@Delux- ohai! dont afraid, i come back in the return and you will be desky beauty once again
@Madhuri Maram/iruhdam - aw, dont hurted, i see you in december, no? yes.
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. crying rivers endlessly while crooning sad tunes in air supply manner.
aw :( i am sad that you are crying rivers endlessly but sadder still that you have been moved to sing in an air supply manner. i kindly request you to be happy in the heart and love life and just be rocking.
Timing is everything.
In a matter of one week, I stumbled across you blog and received a nomination for prestigious-sounding (but really just a chain mail ) award for versatile blogger. I am passing on the nomination to you(http://wp.me/plysE-jm)
But it appears that you are 'taking leave'. Darn!
Timing is everything
oh how nice, thank you :) i wish i was not on leave so i could do this properly but oh whale. thanksya
Dear K,
First I was afraid / I was petrified / Kept thinking I could never live / without this blog by my side...
But guess what?
My toddler accompanied me to the library the other day.
And he brought home a copy of *wait for it* TUCKET THE BUCKET.
Oh yes! even two and a half year olds have excellent taste.
He loves it. The first couple of times he didnt like the idea of a rose in the bucket turned flower pot *him belonging to the you cannot 'transcend' from your caste, a bucket should just be a bucket* but since then has quite reconciled to the idea, and the book has already been reissued a couple of times.
so yes, we will survive until the next post.
Thankyou for your words.
YAY!!111 superthrilled he likes tucket and was able to overcome bucket/flower pot casteismfeelings. Thank you for telling me also, I appreciate very much :)
I say. This is most unfair. Like a fair and lovely bottle seen in the mirror.
Also, I read "Insects". You are one of the mostEST brilliant writers I have had the good fortune to read.
Err...I really mean it about the brilliant part.
aw thanks, fullblushing and appreciation happening for your kind words. Thanks very much for reading :)
All I'm saying is, it's almost December. When you said December, you meant December the 1st, yes? Good. This was, as they like to say in quotes, a 'gentle reminder'. Appear soon. Thanks.
I wrote you a pome:
My niecelet loved tucket and the boo in the shoe
I think she'd like to be friends with you
She's promised you candy and a trip to the zoo
Would you like to be friends with her too?
Hope you'll be back soon... doesn't feel the same when you're not here :( (emo happened)
@longblackveil- ohaimaifraand! I hope to come back in the return on Saturday. Or Sunday. Or Monday. Please come and say hai to my face when I come back in the return.
@ anonymous- aw, I appreciate your pome very much and would be honored to share fraandships with the niecelet. Also please don’t be emo, I hope to come back in the return on Saturday. Or Sunday. Or Monday. You please come and say hai also.
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