{"id":19,"date":"2019-12-30T21:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shashibhat.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:00:19","slug":"selected-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/selected-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9780771094965-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-291\" style=\"width:170px;height:256px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9780771094965-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9780771094965-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9780771094965-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9780771094965.jpg 1639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/cookemcdermid.com\/deals\/2025\/11\/13\/canada-english-rights-to-shashi-bhats-spinster\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cookemcdermid.com\/deals\/2025\/11\/13\/canada-english-rights-to-shashi-bhats-spinster\">Spinster<\/a>,<\/em> novel, forthcoming from McClelland &amp; Stewart in 2027<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/636398\/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-by-shashi-bhat\/9780771095115\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/636398\/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-by-shashi-bhat\/9780771095115\">Death by a Thousand Cuts<\/a><\/em>, short story collection, McClelland &amp; Stewart (April 2024); French translation forthcoming from L&#8217;Interligne in 2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/636397\/the-most-precious-substance-on-earth-by-shashi-bhat\/9780771094965\">The Most Precious Substance on Earth<\/a><\/em>, novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/imprints\/MS\/mcclelland-stewart\">McClelland &amp; Stewart<\/a> (Canada, Fall 2021), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandcentralpublishing.com\/\">Grand Central Publishing<\/a> (US, Spring 2022); <a href=\"https:\/\/interligne.ca\/auteurs-auteures\/shashi-bhat\/de-platre-et-de-platine\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/interligne.ca\/auteurs-auteures\/shashi-bhat\/de-platre-et-de-platine\/\">De pl\u00e2tre et de platine<\/a>, French translation, L&#8217;Interligne (February 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Family-Took-Shape-Shashi-Bhat\/dp\/1770860916\">The Family Took Shape<\/a><\/em>, novel, Cormorant Books (April 2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Short Fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKeeping Things Fresh,\u201d&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/biblioasis.com\/shop\/forthcoming\/best-canadian-stories-2021\/\">Best Canadian Stories 2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Keeping Things Fresh,&#8221; <em>Room Magazine<\/em>, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMouse House,\u201d <em>Maisonneuve<\/em>, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hazlitt.net\/longreads\/her-ex-writes-novel\">Her Ex Writes a Novel<\/a>,\u201d <em>Hazlitt<\/em>, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCode Orange,\u201d <i>Prairie Fire<\/i>, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFacsimile,\u201d&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/biblioasis.com\/shop\/forthcoming\/best-canadian-stories-2021\/\">Best Canadian Stories 2021<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFacsimile,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Fiddlehead<\/em>, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Most Precious Substance on Earth,\u201d&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/biblioasis.com\/shop\/forthcoming\/best-canadian-stories-2019\/\">Best Canadian Stories 2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChicken &amp; Egg,\u201d&nbsp;<em>subTerrain<\/em>, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/The-Family-Took-Shape-2-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/The-Family-Took-Shape-2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/The-Family-Took-Shape-2.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy I Read Beowulf,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Inostrannaya Literatura<\/em>, translated into Russian, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGood Enough Never Is,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Malahat Review<\/em>, 2019; listed as a Notable Story in <em>Best Canadian Stories 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEarning Disapproval,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Puritan<\/em>,\n2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFood for Nought,\u201d&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/biblioasis.com\/shop\/new-release\/best-canadian-stories-2018\/\">Best Canadian Stories 2018<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tnq.ca\/story\/the-most-precious-substance-on-earth\/\">The Most Precious Substance on Earth<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New Quarterly<\/em>, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMute,\u201d <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/575314\/the-journey-prize-stories-30-by-various\/9780771050763\">The Journey Prize Stories 30<\/a>,<\/em> 2018 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMute,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Dalhousie Review<\/em>, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFood for Nought,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Malahat Review<\/em>, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Journey-Prize-Stories-30-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" style=\"width:195px;height:313px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Journey-Prize-Stories-30-1.jpg 280w, https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Journey-Prize-Stories-30-1-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEye Appointment,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Matrix<\/em>, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSomething I saw on <em>Oprah<\/em>,\u201d <em>Grain<\/em>, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter the Eye Appointment,\u201d <em>The Impressment\nGang<\/em>, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChronic Pain Will Never Leave You,\u201d<em> The New\nQuarterly, 2<\/em>013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy\nI read Beowulf,\u201d <em>The Journey Prize\nAnthology<\/em>, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy\nI read Beowulf,\u201d <em>PRISM international Journal<\/em>, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFire Safety,\u201d <em>Broome Review, <\/em>2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnother\nDinner Party,\u201d <em>Nimrod International Journal<\/em>, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Journey-Prize-Stories-24-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53\" style=\"width:195px;height:316px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Journey-Prize-Stories-24-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Journey-Prize-Stories-24.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat You Can Live Without,\u201d <em>The Threepenny Review,<\/em> 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHating\nEileen,\u201d <em>Arcadia<\/em>, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDomestic\nThings,\u201d <em>Candor<\/em>, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDialysis,\u201d\n<em>EVENT Magazine<\/em>, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSelf-Surgery,\u201d\n<em>Cooweescoowee<\/em>, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSublimation,\u201d <em>The Missouri Review<\/em>, 2007  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDrawing Lessons,\u201d <em>Bayou Magazine<\/em>, 2007 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books: Spinster, novel, forthcoming from McClelland &amp; Stewart in 2027 Death by a Thousand Cuts, short story collection, McClelland &amp; Stewart (April 2024); French translation forthcoming from L&#8217;Interligne in 2028 The Most Precious Substance on Earth, novel, McClelland &amp; Stewart (Canada, Fall 2021), Grand Central Publishing (US, Spring 2022); De pl\u00e2tre et de platine, French &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/selected-publications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Selected Publications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shashibhat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}