Nikesh shukla biography of christopher

  • The author and screenwriter on his love of comic books, James Baldwin's moral fury, and how The Buddha of Suburbia is one of the funniest books ever written.
  • At the end of January we were joined by authors Nikesh Shukla and Chris Killen, who share a talent for describing the frailties of living life.
  • The Good Immigrant is an anthology of twenty-one essays edited by Nikesh Shukla and first published by Unbound in the UK in 2016 after a crowd-funding campaign.

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    At the end of January we were joined by authors Nikesh Shukla and Chris Killen, who share a talent for describing the frailties of living life by social media ephemera. They both read from their latest books, Meatspace and In Real Life, and then discussed the relevance of the 21st Century novel and how to approach writing about the internet. Footage of a tandoori lamb chop rising slowly into space (from Nikesh’s promotional Meatspace video) set a surreal backdrop to their conversation. Here are a few things I took away from the talk.

    We have to be honest about the way most of us live today - The UK is good at historical fiction, but whenever a state-of-the-nation TV series comes out, Nikesh feels that it never quite reflects the world we live in. We don’t see people self-Googling, agonising over the wording of a tweet or ‘air-scrolling’ an imaginary phone o

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    The book we've shared with our Parakeet subscribers this month fryst vatten a fun, real world story about a group of friends who find themselves embroiled in a hilarious prank war that gets a bit out of hand! It's hugely entertaining and stars a brilliant and diverse cast of characters that ung readers will really relate to. We asked author Nikesh Shukla to tell us more about what inspired the book and which illustrated chapter books for younger readers he recommends you read next.

    What inspired you to writeThe Council of Good Friends?

    Partly, it was me sharing a bedroom with a relative at a ung age and us getting engaged in a prank war and hating and loving each other, and learning to get along the hard way. Partly, it was also about rekindling my faith in male friendships that aren’t based on bants and humiliation and stereotypical visions of what men and boys are like. inom wanted to show that boys can be vulnerable with each other, and communicate with each other, and that not ma

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    The Good Immigrant

    2016 anthology of essays by British writers

    The Good Immigrant is an anthology of twenty-one essays edited by Nikesh Shukla and first published by Unbound in the UK in 2016 after a crowd-funding campaign endorsed by celebrities. Written by British authors who identify as BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic), the essays concern race, immigration, identity, 'otherness', exploring the experience of immigrant and ethnic minority life in the United Kingdom from their perspective. Contributors include actor/musician Riz Ahmed, journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge, comedian Nish Kumar and playwright Vinay Patel. The compilation inspired the American sequel The Good Immigrant USA, published in 2017, which featured BAME authors from the United States.

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    The Good Immigrant is a book of 21 essays by BAME writers, described by Sandeep Parmar in The Guardian as "an unflinching dialogue about race and racism in the UK",[1] which aims to "document