Reviewed in People

If you live in the US, you can get a signed copy of Not Only The Things That Have Happened here. You can find more reviews here.

Short Fiction at the Hindu Litfest

Here's my discussion with Benyamin and Ashok Ferrey at the Hindu Literary Festival.  It's always so inspiring to listen to other writers who care deeply about short fiction. And these guys were fun also.



If you live in the US, you can get a copy of Not Only The Things That Have Happened here.

Reviewed in HT

Very happy to see Aishwarya Subramanian's review in the Hindustan Times this week.

[Not Only the Things That Have Happened] leaps nimbly between times and styles and its characters' points of view. The sheer quality of Koshy's prose is probably the best reason to read her, and in the earlier sections in particular the book's structure offers her a great deal of scope to play with style, as well as to weave in the cadences of colloquial Malayalam.

Koshy manages to touch upon the politics of adoption, language, exile, identity. Such a novel could easily have fallen into the trap of being dull and worthy. That it doesn't is something of a triumph; this is a fantastic book.

You can read the full review here. Go here for more reviews of the book.

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Book Sale: Get Your Signed Copies Here!

Get one while you can!

All the way from Australia

I'm relocating to Delhi in a couple months. I was hoping to do a big public reading at which I would make copies of my new book available. Well, it's not happening, what with the chimney that's leaning, the kitchen counter that's absorbed so much water it's less particle board and more H2O and maybe some other things besides. But my busy-ness with remodeling and relocating is no reason for you to lose out on getting a hold of the book. 


So we have this on-line book sale. During the month of April and May, while supplies last you can have a signed, hard-bound copy of Not Only the Things That Have Happened for $15 ($18 including postage anywhere in the US).  I've also got a few copies of the Australian edition of If It IS Sweet (paperback) on sale for just $10 ($12 including postage). 

If you want a copy (or copies) of either or both books, just drop me an email at mridulakoshyatgmail.com. Include your mailing address, and I'll tell you a couple simple ways you can pay (e.g., small, unmarked bills; paypal or an hour or two of brick hauling or yard work). You can read reviews of both books here.

Author TV

Here's an interview from the Hyderabad Literary Festival in which I talk maybe a little too extensively about Not Only the Things That Have Happened. You can find it, along with many other interesting interviews on Author TV.in.

Favourite interviews so far

A good interview is sometimes better than a good essay because there are two minds at work in the interview. I've given dozens. Here are a few of my favourites.

February, 2013 with Janice Pariat at The Fuschia Tree. We discuss, time, bicycles and weightlessness. 

February, 2013, with Anupama Raju in The Hindu. "I want to be fair to the reader."

February, 2013, my first live chat, on IBN. Many questions, quickly. (Did I mention I type with two fingers only?)

Janurary, 2013, in Malayalam on Asianet. (Video.)


December, 2012, on Back Page , Oregon Public Broadcasting. (Video.)

July, 2012, Platform Magazine. On Not Only The Things That Have Happened.

May, 2012, with Deepanjana Pal, from interview that ran in Elle, India.

April, 2012, radio interview on Australia's 'Yes She Can’, a multicultural women’s radio program broadcasting on Canberra’s Multicultural Service (CMS) 91.1 FM. You can hear the show here.

August, 2009, "Mridula Koshy is a sleepy, sleepless optimist (and author of the much buzzed book 'If it is Sweet')"-- interview on Aspi's Drift.

May, 2009, with Aditi Machado, on Blotting Paper.