Ashok Rajamani

AUTHOR + POET + ESSAYIST + ARTIST + ADVOCATE

poetry + prose

poetry
"words, brewed and unbrewed."
flash fiction
"stories, thumb-sized."
essays
"Salman Rushdie uncovers the dream that imprisons."
"How a Drag King and the Carnival Stole the Show in the World's Greatest Poem."
fiction
"why on earth would a brown american boy want to be an all-american star?"

Ashok's Favorites:


songs:

"anything, anything"
--dramarama
"black star"
--radiohead
"the perfect drug"
--nine inch nails
"like a prayer"
--madonna
"one"
--metallica
"today"
--smashing pumpkins
"i remember you"
--skid row
"good beat"
--deee-lite
"can i get a..."
--jay-z
"bad romance"
--lady gaga
"peek-a-boo"
--siouxsie and the banshees
"the jump off"
--lil' kim
"the childcatcher"
--lush
"go"
--moby
"most of all"
--jody watley
"channel z"
--b-52's
"grey cell green"
--ned's atomic dustbin


movies:

"metropolis"
"devi"
"johnny got his gun"
"8½"
"freaks"
"women on the verge of a nervous breakdown"
"do the right thing"
"audition"
"rosemary's baby"
"heavenly creatures"
"misery"
"trainspotting"
"umrao jaan" (original)
"damage"
"hiroshima mon amour"
"showgirls"


books:

"geek love"
--katherine dunn
"lolita"
--vladimir nabokov
"sideway stories from wayside school"
--louis sachar
"the persecution and assassination of jean-paul marat as performed by the inmates of charenton under the direction of the marquis de sade: a play"
--Peter Weiss
"the concept of mind"
--gilbert ryle
"bone black: memories of girlhood"
--bell hooks
"maurice"
--e.m. forster
"mahabharata"
--vyasa

revolutionaries:

sri ramakrishna,
saint of bengal
gautama buddha
madonna
malcolm x
stephen hawking
swami vivekananda
jacques lacan
helen keller
frida kahlo
papa smurf

Ashok is available for readings, writing workshops, classroom visits, lectures, and conferences.


e-mail ashok directly:




publisher:


Workman Publishing Company
225 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014-4381
212-254-5900 (phone)
212-254-8098 (fax)

Algonquin Books
P.O. Box 2225
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2225
919-967-0108 (phone)
919-933-0272 (fax)




film/​television rights:


Intellectual Property Group

agent: Joel Gotler
9200 Sunset Blvd., Suite 820
Los Angeles, CA 90069
tel: (310) 402-5154
fax: (310) 402-5153