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		<title>Book Review: Island Of A Thousand Mirrors&#8221; by Nayomi Munaweera</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 13:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the media today we sometimes encounter the phrase, “the Sri Lanka story”, as though a singular narrative exists. Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors is an elegant debut that attempts, and more often than not succeeds, to complicate this notion. It is a classic diaspora story, only set against a backdrop still fraught [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1498&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Erotica In Campus Diaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campus Diaries recently interviewed me about writing and reading erotica. CD: What does it mean for you to be erotic? As a personal definition and in your work? SM: There’s a line from an Ani Difranco song – “Every time I move, I make a woman’s movement”. I think this is my personal definition. Read [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1494&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Story In The Moth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a short story, &#8220;Sweet&#8221; in the Spring 2013 issue of The Moth, an Ireland-based print magazine. Here&#8217;s the first paragraph&#8230; They say that if you dream of the one you long for on a night when you have kept four lotus petals under your pillow, your love has not gone unreciprocated. In the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1490&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem In PIX</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Recovery issue of PIX &#8212; a photography quarterly &#8212; also has lots to read, including my poem &#8220;Tin Men&#8221;. Also includes poems by Annie Zaidi, Sumana Roy, Anindita Sengupta, Anand Thakore and an essay by Prayaag Akbar, as well as several wonderful photo features.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1488&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Big Thing Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was tagged by Christopher Martin, author and editor (of Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination) to participate in this blog meme. “The Next Big Thing”, is meant to find and promote new and in-progress books, by getting their authors to answer a series of questions. [I’ve seen some versions of this meme with one [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1482&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Story In the 2012 Best of the Net Anthology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My story &#8220;Nine Postcards From The Pondicherry Border&#8221;, which originally appeared in Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination, has been selected for Sundress Publication&#8217;s 2012 Best of the Net Anthology, which honours fiction, poetry and non-fiction published in web journals.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1479&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belly Beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Kindle Magazine&#8216;s March 2013 issue on reclaiming the female body. A coquettish Maria de Medeiros, playing the moll in Pulp Fiction, lounges in bed, practically purring with a self-assured lazy sensuality. Sleepily, she fantasises about having a potbelly, how she would accentuate it with small tee shirts and how very sexy one is (but [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1477&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Fiction In Bengal Lights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Bengal Lights, a very short story, &#8220;The Black Widow&#8221;.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1474&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem In Prairie Schooner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a poem, &#8220;Benediction For The Feast&#8221;, in Prairie Schooner&#8217;s online Fusion series. Guest editor Sudeep Sen has this to say about the poem in his introduction to the issue: &#8220;Sharanya Manivannan’s &#8216;Benediction for a Feast&#8217; has a seductive oral quality to it—it almost urges you to be anointed through her wordplay&#8221;. Read it here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1471&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Story In Erotique</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharanya Manivannan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a surrealist noir erotic story, &#8220;Sky Clad&#8221;, in the new issue of Erotique. Purchase details here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2334623&#038;post=1467&#038;subd=sharanyamanivannan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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