Tales on Tweet

By Manoj Pandey

Manoj Pandey tweeted out a story. Then some more. And others began tweeting tales right back at him: Margaret Atwood and Kabir Bedi with death tales, Salman Rushdie and Jeet Thayil with their dark humour, Teju Cole meditating on loneliness, Prajwal Parajuly on literature, Shashi Tharoor on India ... It was a literary moment of sorts: spontaneous, changeable, tangential and then, just like Twitter itself, surprisingly poignant in bursts and flashes. But it was when these stories came together with Yuko Shimizu's phantasmagorical images that Tales on Tweet stepped off the scrollable vortex of a webpage and into the tactile intimacy of the reading experience. Together, they tell powerful stories that explore the dramatic potential of brevity through micro-narratives that build worlds, bring them down, laugh at death, mourn the moon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Jul 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9789350296998

Manoj Pandey

Manoj Pandey is a writer/illustrator. His works have appeared in Creative Review, The Huffington Post, Litro London, The Indian Express, New Welsh Review, University of Oklahoma's World Literature Today and Twitter blog, among others. In 2014, he was named one of the '200 Best Illustrators in the world' by Lurzer's Archive.

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TALES on TWEET

Illustrated Short Fiction

Edited and curated by

Manoj Pandey

HarperCollins Publishers India

CONTENTS

EDITOR’S NOTE

MARGARET ATWOOD

SALMAN RUSHDIE

TEJU COLE

SHASHI THAROOR

NILANJANA S. ROY

JEET THAYIL

KABIR BEDI

PRAJWAL PARAJULY

SHUBHA MENON

KERRY MANZO

MANOJ PANDEY

FRANCES RINGWOOD

JULIA EDWARDS

LISA NG HEW MEI

FIRAS JANABI

ANTHONY SCHIAVINO

DAVE ZELTSERMAN

FATHIMA IMAMUDDIN

JULIA EDWARDS

BIJOY VENUGOPAL

ASHWINI GOWARIKER

SUKHADA TATKE

SANDHYA MENON

AYESHA KHANNA

CARRIE DECKER

ALDEENA RAJU

CHITRA VIRARAGHAVAN

NIMA NAMCHU

SHABNAM HASHMI

AJAY GAHLAUT

SAFWAN AMIR

JITE EFEMUAYE

LAUREN CERAND

NEHA MALUDE

ABHISHEK SENGUPTA

VAGISHA BHATIA

MADHAVI KATRE

NAVYA JAIN

LIZ SWANSON

LAURENCE O BRYAN

ERINA METTLER

ROGER SMITH

ADITHI MATHUR KUMAR

SAYANTAN GHOSH

IAN MURPHY

RISHI VERMA

SARAH C.S. ASHWORTH

KAI STARR

SUE WILLIAMS

WENDY LAW-YONE

About the Book

About the Author

About The Artist

Copyright

EDITOR’S NOTE

The long and short of it

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