Reading China: The Book of Shanghai
The Book of Shanghai is a tour of contemporary literature in the great megacity, and today, Sara F. Costa will be your guide.
The Book of Shanghai is a tour of contemporary literature in the great megacity, and today, Sara F. Costa will be your guide.
Spittoon Monthly presents “I Don’t Want Him to Smell” by Damyanti Biswas, a story of a poor Singaporean family trapped in the stink of being human.
Siddharth Dasgupta discusses the erotic nature of cities, the indivisibility of place and language, and the “untouched sweetness” of foreign words.
“When things are busy, I need to cook over 100 bowls of wontons in one day.”
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Spittoon Monthly presents the sensuous lyric of Siddharth Dasgupta, our featured writer for July. Rooted in Istanbul, Calcutta, memory, and language itself, these five poems are both worldly and intimate, generating a rich soundscape where a reader-traveler might sojourn.
Jordan Dotson reflects on fifteen years as an expat writer in China, the colorful scene in Shenzhen around 2010, utopias, and what it takes to keep writing.
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“Because of my husband, my life feels so full and content. Finding the right partner has been the great fortune of my life. And being with him has been my life’s great meaning.”