Nisha Susan, “What Happens When a Writer Hates the Heroine of Her New Book?” (2020)

“In her second week at the library, she was choked. Somewhere in this building, she had been told, is an actual manuscript of the Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri had not sat around in the 1300s writing coy shit. Somewhere near here, Arun Kolatkar had written Jejuri and the Kala Ghoda poems. Somewhere near here, Kolatkar had died. Where in her writing was the blood, the grime, the puking on the streets and the deep stuff?”    —Nisha Susan, excerpt from The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories, Huffington Post (August 10, 2020)