Prose #15: Shome Dasgupta

"A Menu for Tomorrow" & "Peanut Butter" by Shome Dasgupta

Food plays a central role in two radically different stories--one romantic, one horrific.

This is the fifteenth installment of the Belle Point Prose Series, an ongoing collection of short prose works by Mid-Southern writers.

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Shome Dasgupta's novel The Seagull and the Urn was published by HarperCollins India, and it was republished by Hachette/Headline Accent in the UK as The Sea Singer. His experimental i am here And You Are Gone won the 2010 OW Press Fiction Contest. His books include the novels The Muu-Antiques (Malarkey Books), Tentacles Numbing (Thirty West), and Cirrus Stratus (Spuyten Duyvil), an experimental book of prose, Spectacles (word west), and a poetry collection, Iron Oxide (Assure Press). His writing has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Jabberwock Review, New Orleans Review, New Delta Review, American Book Review, Arkansas Review, Magma Poetry, and elsewhere. His fiction and poetry have also been anthologized in Best Small Fictions, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and Poetic Voices Without Borders 2. His work has been featured as a storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story, and his stories and poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Orison Anthology. He lives in Lafayette, LA, and can be found online at shomedome.com and @laughingyeti.

• Publication Date: September 2023
• Trim size: 5 x 7 inches

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