One Note: Shome Dasgupta
I wasn't wearing those blue and red flexible eye glasses...
In One Note, Gabriel Blackwell asks writers for just that: one note, a single paragraph, on what they’re reading right now.
Today’s note comes courtesy of Shome Dasgupta:
The last book I read and the book I’m re-reading now is Bhanu Kapil’s mind-digging Schizophrene. There is a certain wonderful hum to her prose. And I have found myself drawn to the words containing the letter s, or in particular, the words that begin with the letter s. They flew towards me the first time around–I wasn’t wearing those blue and red flexible eye glasses, but the s words elevated themselves from the pages, and I kept swinging my hands at them, in hope of grabbing them and keeping them in a safe place for when I have nightmares or bad days. As I’m re-reading Schizophrene, the s words still hover over the pages or zoom towards my eyes, dodging my hands as I try to capture them–they tease me, Bhanu Kapil’s words, and I hope they never go away.
Shome Dasgupta is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner of the 2010 Outsider Writers Press Fiction Chapbook Contest) and Tentacles, Numbing (Black Coffee Press, 2013). His work has recently appeared or will appear in NANO Fiction, Rougarou, Uncanny Valley Magazine, Redivider, and elsewhere. His website can be found at www.shomedome.com, and he hosts the On Reading Series at The Laughing Yeti.
