“My novel is a love letter to the Indian immigrant community in Edison, New Jersey (where I grew up) but it’s also an ode to Hindi movies (what the world has come to know as ‘Bollywood’).”
“Log Off is a pearl necklace of essays that will, hopefully give you the strength to do as the title urges. Its subtitle, Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix, gets at the reasons I wrote the book.”
“This is a story about passionate friendship and about the thin curtain between the living and the dead.”
“I wanted this to be fast, fun, and thoughtful… but also really push the pedal to the floor in terms of action. So a lot of the songs I chose were high-energy, to drive those sequences…”
“I thought of each of these stories as cuts from an album—I wanted them to have complimentary rhythms and stitch together to make something larger than the individual stories.”
“I hope the following songs encapsulate the sense of power, wonder, and dreamwork that the fox spirit has inspired in me as I wrote Ninetails”
“…music plays a big role in my writing. It helps me enter into the world of the book and get excited about it. It’s a way of connecting to the characters on a different plane.”
“Each book that I write has its own emotions, its own rhythms, requiring its own playlist.”
“So, here’s my love letter: what follows are ten songs that either appear in the book or have informed the writing of it. It’s like a mixed tape: I put them in the order I imagined you listening to them because they build on each other and push things forward.”
“I’ve spent countless hours listening to the songs below in my car on the way to work or while mowing the yard, zoning out to enter the right mind-state where ideas bubble up.”