V.V. Ganeshananthan

Received fundraising snail mail from the University of Minnesota Foundation. Looking at it, one would think that there are no arts or humanities at this institution, or that this community does not care about the arts or humanities. Neither is true.

Oh hell no

The full video of my conversation with @sugi.bsky.social about her stories in the context of the 'kadalodikal' collection. Use the CC button to turn on subtitles. youtu.be/7G3VbIpW3xQ

Thanks to my colleagues for this important piece. Opinion | University of Minnesota budget cuts will be bad for students and the state U President Rebecca Cunningham has not yet provided a persuasive case for why cuts of this scale are needed. www.startribune.com/opinion-univ...

NEW EPISODE: Sociologist Nicole Bedera joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to talk about Title IX effectiveness and her book, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence. Find it here: lithub.com/nicole-beder...

This episode had me 🤯. Do not miss!

NEW EPISODE: Fiction writer @appletwigli.bsky.social joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to talk about her new novel, Music Against the Night, and how it explores fame by fictionalizing the lives of real historical figures. lithub.com/yiyun-li-on-...

Meet the selection panel for Originators, the Women’s Prize Trust’s mentorship and development program, presented by CHANEL: Chair A.M. Homes is joined by Virginia Evans, @sugi.bsky.social, @tayari.bsky.social and Nicole Krauss. Learn more at womensprize.com/originators/

Prof @sugi.bsky.social who won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2024 will serve as a judge and mentor in this new @womensprize.bsky.social program (free to enter):

Canadian friends: On Saturday, Oct 24 at 5 pm, we will introduce our translated short story collection 'kaṭalōṭikaḷ'. We invite you to join us. கனடா நண்பர்களுக்கு: ஓக்டோபர் 24 (சனி) மாலை 5 மணிக்கு எங்களது 'கடலோடிகள்' சிறுகதைத் தொகுப்பு அறிமுக விழா நடாத்துகிறோம். இணைந்து கொள்ளுங்கள். @vajra.me @sugi.bsky.social ezi.asokan.org/2026/10/08/k...

'Half-Eaten Cities' appeared in காற்றுவெளி in Aug 2026. 'The Translator, ...' appeared in காலச்சுவடு, the leading Tamil literary magazine, in Jan 2025. More about the கடலோடிகள் collection, incl. a translation of my foreword here: (scroll down for English) ezi.asokan.org/2026/06/26/k... @sugi.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE: Fiction writer and popular YouTuber Sam A. Miller joins co-hosts Christian Barter and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about his debut story collection, Still Lost: Tales from the Year 2080, as well as his educational and comedic videos. lithub.com/sam-a-miller...

honored to be among the contributors to this volume

Book lovers in Jaffna: During Jaffna International Book Fair (Sep 5-9), you can obtain the following books from Fathima Book Centre. - கடலோடிகள், translated shorty story collection, featuring @sugi.bsky.social and @vajra.me (தமிழில்) - The Meccan Shawl, translation of S.L.M. Hanifa's மக்கத்துச்சால்வை. (English)

As birthright citizenship is being discussed, tune in to our episode, the Myth of Citizenship with Whitney Terrell, @sugi.bsky.social, and Daisy Hernández @lithub. You can find it here: lithub.com/daisy-hernan... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

NEW EPISODE: Novelist @arunikashyap.bsky.social joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social to talk about the surprising surge of the Cockroach People’s Party, whose followers now number in the millions. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/aruni-kashya...

this novel is absolutely gripping

be the sand you want to see in the fascist gears of the world

I get excited for haircuts and long-haul flights because, well: sleeping. I need more activities in this category

they say they think raises are very important and then erase them with moves like this

Today I was in court fighting to protect Minnesotans from being violated and harassed through AI-generated nudification. Everyone deserves privacy, dignity, and the right to live without someone using technology to violate them. 1/2

the U's version of consultation is to share the information with committees "for feedback" and then announce the changes, unmodified, the next day

nothing like a authoritarian presentation about how we're all going to navigate these changes together

NEW EPISODE: Entomologist Dino Martins joins co-host @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to talk about the Cyclospora outbreak and the New World screwworm. Martins reads from his new book, Hidden Creatures. #Cyclospora #Parasites @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/dino-martins...

Published by Karuppu Piradhigal publications. Books can be purchased via www.commonfolks.in/books/d/kada... Featuring stories by @sugi.bsky.social @vajra.me

Raz Segal is a rigorous and brilliant scholar of Holicaust studies. UMN lost a valuable opportunity to support collaborative work on studies of genocide outside of European exceptionalism. Solidarity with Raz and all who recruited him and fought for his offer to be reinstated.

After Harry Belafonte scored the first million-selling LP, "what did he do with his resulting wealth and fame? The short and simple answer to that is bankroll the Civil Rights movement, in a not incidental way" -- Joshua Jelly-Schapiro talks w/ Prof @sugi.bsky.social about his new bio of Belafonte:

NEW EPISODE: Non-fiction writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Christian Barter to talk about the life of performer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died in 2023. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/joshua-jelly...

In solidarity with Raz, and with gratitude for the colleagues who worked so hard to try to find a home for him here. He is our colleague, too, and always will be.

NEW EPISODE: Artist and writer @mollycrabapple.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/molly-crabap...

a hallmark of our present capitalism is the incessant collection of private feedback for the sake of saying there has been consultation; then the immediate trashing of that feedback I do not exempt universities, including my own, from this statement

you heard it was lettuce. you bought berries. you heard about the false positive. you stare at your berries. they stare back.

NEW EPISODE: MLS commentator @natebukaty.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about Kansas City’s influence on American soccer and how the city came to host the World Cup. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/nate-bukaty-...

NEW EPISODE: Acclaimed nonfiction writer Peter Hessler joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about his new memoir, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, and explain how education there shifted between that era and 2019. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/peter-hessle...

NEW EPISODE: Young adult novelist Soman Chainani joins co-hosts Christian Barter and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new novel Young World, writing a teenage president, and the impact of age on politics. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/soman-chaina...

In response to the Guardian's recent Best 100 Novels List, which almost entirely shut out the Southern Hemisphere, the Academy of New Zealand Literature assembled this list of "The rest of ‘the greatest literature ever published in English’" www.anzliterature.com/feature/the-...

NEW EPISODE: Journalist Matthew Wolfe joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/matthew-wolf...

NEW EPISODE: Writer Deb Olin Unferth joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Christian Barter to discuss the enduring power of apocalyptic narratives and her new novel Earth 7, set on an an earth that depopulated by war and environmental collapse. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/deb-olin-unf...

Proud to know Vivek Bharathan, who is doing tremendous work. www.tucsonagenda.com/p/disrupting...

விரைவில்: “கடலோடிகள்”: இலங்கையைப் பூர்விகமாக கொண்டு மேலைத்தேய இலக்கிய உலகில் பரிணமித்த நான்கு நட்சத்திர எழுத்தாளர்களின் பத்துக் கதைகள். Coming Soon: "kaṭalōṭikaḷ": A Tamil collection. Ten stories originally published in English by internationally acclaimed authors of Sri Lankan origin. @sugi.bsky.social @vajra.me @sureshcanax.bsky.social