Ajay Vishwanathan is the founder and chief editor of Foundling Review. His work published or forthcoming in over ninety literary journals, including The Minnesota Review, Southern Humanities Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and The Baltimore Review. Also forthcoming is a short story collection, From a Tilted Pail, from Queen’s Ferry Press.
You’re on a deserted island but luckily you found your three most favorite books, what are they?
All Things Bright & Beautiful by James Herriot, The Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
What contemporary writer excites you the most?
Mohsin Hamid
What does independent literature mean to you?
It unleashes bottled-up talent that has, for decades, remained squished for want of opportunities.
What color is the sky?
It’s always the same color – but appears cheery or dull depending on where you look up and see it from.
Vishwanathan has a forthcoming collection of short stories titled, From a Tilted Pail, from Queen’s Ferry Press.
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