Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Puloma Ghosh is the author of Mouth, a debut collection of short stories. The collection fuses speculative fiction, horror and fantastical elements for stories that are eerie, otherworldly -- perfect for Halloween. In this interview we discuss her collection, the short story form and the nature of writing.
Follow Puloma Ghosh here: instagram.com/pulomeow
You can buy Mouth wherever books are sold :)
✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran
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0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Taking us back in time to the inception of Mouth
4:26 - Anomaly was the most fun to write
5:44 - Authorial Obsessions: Vampires
9:00 - Alienation and Connection
16:00 - Let's talk about horror and speculative fiction
19:17 - Dreams & Nightmares
24:18 - THE SHORT STORY FORM IS A SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
36:00 - The working writer life!
40:50 - Read widely!
42:00 - The Recs You Need!!!!!!
44:16 - what's next
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Puloma Ghosh on Reading & Writing | An Interview about Short Stories, Horror and More
#authorinterviews #booktube #books #pulomaghosh #spookyseason
On Kiran Reader’s Youtube Channel you will get all things literature, travel, lifestyle vlogs, art gallery snippets, content from fashion shows and more - Kiran Reader reviews books from the most popular authors like Salman Rushdie, Ottessa Moshfegh, W. Somerset Maugham, Dennis Johnson, Eve Babitz, Fleur Jaggy, and more. She likes translated fiction, contemporary fiction, Russian literature, classics, some fantasy, the occasional romance book, plenty of non-fiction - what can we say? She’s with it all. (Cue Pop Smoke reference). Check out this monthly wrap up book video - one of many reading wrap-ups. Find out “What I read this mont” and “what I read this week” by watching my wrap up video.
Kiran Reader reacts and predicts to a lot of things, especially the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize which includes former long listed authors like Olga Tokarczuk, Han Kang, Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, and more. Punjabi American book tuber Kiran Reader collaborates with some of the most ienresting book tube creators. Some of this channel’s most popular videos:
“Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh 🐑🪺📚 Character Analysis, Shrek Comparisons and More”
“Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize: A Series #13”
“the BEST of books 2022!!!!! (literary fiction + nonfiction and RESOLUTIONS)”
“Heaven by Mieko Kawakami 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist: A Series #6”
Her most popular Short include a video of Naomi Cambell, a video of Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber, travel clips from Cappadocia, Turkey and the famous Cedric Grolet London cookie.
✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com
Puloma Ghosh is the author of Mouth, a debut collection of short stories. The collection fuses speculative fiction, horror and fantastical elements for stories that are eerie, otherworldly -- perfect for Halloween. In this interview we discuss her collection, the short story form and the nature of writing.
Follow Puloma Ghosh here: instagram.com/pulomeow
You can buy Mouth wherever books are sold :)
✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran
--------------------
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Taking us back in time to the inception of Mouth
4:26 - Anomaly was the most fun to write
5:44 - Authorial Obsessions: Vampires
9:00 - Alienation and Connection
16:00 - Let's talk about horror and speculative fiction
19:17 - Dreams & Nightmares
24:18 - THE SHORT STORY FORM IS A SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
36:00 - The working writer life!
40:50 - Read widely!
42:00 - The Recs You Need!!!!!!
44:16 - what's next
--------------------
🧿🧿🧿
Puloma Ghosh on Reading & Writing | An Interview about Short Stories, Horror and More
#authorinterviews #booktube #books #pulomaghosh #spookyseason
On Kiran Reader’s Youtube Channel you will get all things literature, travel, lifestyle vlogs, art gallery snippets, content from fashion shows and more - Kiran Reader reviews books from the most popular authors like Salman Rushdie, Ottessa Moshfegh, W. Somerset Maugham, Dennis Johnson, Eve Babitz, Fleur Jaggy, and more. She likes translated fiction, contemporary fiction, Russian literature, classics, some fantasy, the occasional romance book, plenty of non-fiction - what can we say? She’s with it all. (Cue Pop Smoke reference). Check out this monthly wrap up book video - one of many reading wrap-ups. Find out “What I read this mont” and “what I read this week” by watching my wrap up video.
Kiran Reader reacts and predicts to a lot of things, especially the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize which includes former long listed authors like Olga Tokarczuk, Han Kang, Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, and more. Punjabi American book tuber Kiran Reader collaborates with some of the most ienresting book tube creators. Some of this channel’s most popular videos:
“Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh 🐑🪺📚 Character Analysis, Shrek Comparisons and More”
“Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize: A Series #13”
“the BEST of books 2022!!!!! (literary fiction + nonfiction and RESOLUTIONS)”
“Heaven by Mieko Kawakami 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist: A Series #6”
Her most popular Short include a video of Naomi Cambell, a video of Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber, travel clips from Cappadocia, Turkey and the famous Cedric Grolet London cookie.
