ROUGH DRAFTS: NOTES ON WRITING
Sentences are the workhorse of writing—so much so that we forget that they do more than just say something. Of course, a sentence communicates some sort of meaning, but how it says is as important as what it says.
Falling into Lakes & Other Misadventures in P.E.
When I first came to the US for college, I was perplexed by the physical education requirement: we had no such thing in Bangladesh.
Death with Dignity
It's a bit odd for me as a healthy 30-something-year-old to be writing about death. But having lived through the protracted agony of my mother's death from kidney failure and complications from dialysis, I feel I have some authority on the subject.
The Idea of Order in Bangladesh
I don't mean law and order, in which we are woefully indigent, but artistic order, the kind created by art and literature. I mean the idea
August 11, 2019
Street Music
Saturday morning: on the brick plaza at the corner of Fourth and Catheri
February 16, 2019
Allegiance
The barred windows and fortress walls,
January 19, 2019
ROUGH DRAFTS: NOTES ON WRITING
Sentences are the workhorse of writing—so much so that we forget that they do more than just say something. Of course, a sentence communicates some sort of meaning, but how it says is as important as what it says.
August 20, 2018
Falling into Lakes & Other Misadventures in P.E.
When I first came to the US for college, I was perplexed by the physical education requirement: we had no such thing in Bangladesh.
July 27, 2018
Death with Dignity
It's a bit odd for me as a healthy 30-something-year-old to be writing about death. But having lived through the protracted agony of my mother's death from kidney failure and complications from dialysis, I feel I have some authority on the subject.
February 10, 2018
The Old City
Here are the steps leading down to the lake
December 9, 2017
Prayer and Lament
507 dead and 22,407 injured in political violence in Bangladesh in 2013
November 18, 2017
The Idea of Order in Bangladesh
I don't mean law and order, in which we are woefully indigent, but artistic order, the kind created by art and literature. I mean the idea
September 16, 2017
The Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Signifier: Alas, that I am only what I am not.
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