Tag: Ticket To Minto

• An Interview with Sohrab Fracis

  This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks, September 8, 2011 “Imagine you have a friend named Rob,” says our instructor at the University of North Florida Writer’s Conference. “If you want to ask your friend a question, you might begin by saying, ‘So, Rob…’ and that is how to pronounce my first name.” Sohrab Homi…

  Bill Ectric

  September 3, 2016

  Bombay, Hindi, India, Iowa Short Fiction Award, Mumbai, short stories, Slice Magazine, Sohrab Fracis, Sohrab Homi Fracis, Ticket To Minto, UNF, UNF Writer’s Conference, University of North Florida, Zoroastrian

• Connections

  I often write about the exhilaration I feel when one good book leads to another and another. After reading and enjoying Ticket to Minto, I interviewed the author, Sohrab Homi Fracis. He mentioned that he was pitching his novel-in-progress as “Jack Kerouac’s On the Road meets Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.”  This piqued my interest in The Namesake. I picked it…

  Bill Ectric

  September 28, 2011

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• My Interview with Sohrab Fracis at LitKicks

        “Imagine you have a friend name Rob,” says our instructor at the University of North Florida Writer’s Conference. “If you want to ask your friend a question, you might begin by saying, ‘So, Rob…’ and that is how to pronounce my first name.” Sohrab Homi Fracis (“Fray-sis”) is the first Asian writer to win…

  Bill Ectric

  September 9, 2011

  India, Indian Literature, Iowa Short Fiction Award, Literary Kicks, Mark Twain Overlook, publishing, short stories, Sohrab Fracis, Sohrab Homi Fracis, The Campion School, Ticket To Minto, UNF, UNF Writer’s Conference, writers, Zoroastrian

• Here Comes the Sun: Ticket To Minto: Stories of India and America, plus an update on the Ali Mirdrekvandi Investigation

  A few months ago I pondered the origins of a little-known book called No Heaven For Gunga Din by Ali Mirdrekvandi, who may or may not have really lived. I recently got some additional insight into that subject from Sohrab Homi Fracis, who I met Wednesday night at the monthly poetry reading at Chamblin’s Uptown  here in…

  Bill Ectric

  April 17, 2011

  India, Indian Literature, Sohrab Homi Fracis, Ticket To Minto, Zoroastrian