Out of Print: Ten Years: An Anthology of Stories

Download or read book Out of Print: Ten Years: An Anthology of Stories written by Indira Chandrasekhar and published by Context. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book Out of Print in print! A decade ago, in 2010, Indira Chandrasekhar set up Out of Print to address a need she felt as a writer: a focused platform for the short story; a space for robust editorial discussions as well as one that would serve as a platform for discoveries—of newer facets of the form itself and of new writing. This commemorative volume hopes to capture something of that adventure. It is, thus, not a ‘best of’ volume, but one that speaks to the spirit of the magazine: its diversity of literary voices, its openness to experimentation, its focus on Indian-language publishing and its stand against mediocrity. Most crucially, of course, this is an ode to the short-story form, its ‘art of brevity and honesty’.