About the Book
Manoj Pandey tweeted out a story. Then some more. And others began tweeting tales right back at him: Margaret Atwood and Kabir Bedi with death tales, Salman Rushdie and Jeet Thayil with their dark humour, Teju Cole meditating on loneliness, Shashi Tharoor on India, Prajwal Parajuly on literature …It was a literary moment of the sort: spontaneous, changeable, tangential and then, just like Twitter itself, surprisingly poignant in bursts and flashes.
But it was when these stories came together with Yuko Shimizu’s phantasmagorical images that Tales on Tweet stepped off the scrollable vortex of a webpage and into the tactile intimacy of the reading experience.
Together, they tell powerful stories that explore the dramatic potential of brevity through micro-narratives that build worlds, bring them down, laugh at death, mourn the moon.
About the Author
Manoj Pandey is a writer/illustrator based in Delhi. His works have appeared in Creative Review, The Huffington Post, Litro London, The Indian Express, New Welsh Review, University of Oklahoma's World Literature Today and Twitter blog, among others. And has been exhibited in Tate Collective and other places. In 2014, he was named as one of the '200 Best Illustrators in the world' by Lurzer's Archive.