Fiction (Short stories)
Squishy
Montreal: DC Books, 2009.
Publisher’s Synopsis
Arjun Basu’s fiction collection is a wry and consistently provocative book which exposes the realities beneath social conventions. Squishy asks: Do you still love me? Do you want fries with that? Do I look fat?
Life is full of small moments that define us, tangents that lead us to unexpected places, bad decisions and no decisions with repercussions you couldn’t possibly predict. This is the world of Squishy, where subtle truths emerge from just beneath our seeming contentment and happiness, our layered social obligations. …
Awards and Honours
2009 ReLit Award short fiction category (shortlist)
Fiction
Waiting for the Man
Toronto: ECW Press, 2014.
PS8603 .A797 W33 2014
Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)
Joe, a 36-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York company, feels disillusioned with his life. He starts dreaming of a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, and hearing his voice. Joe decides to listen to the Man and so he waits on his stoop, day and night, for instructions. A local reporter takes notice, and soon Joe has become a story, a media sensation, the centre of a storm. When the Man tells Joe to “go west,” he does, in search of meaning.
Waiting for the Man is a compelling and visceral story about the struggle to find something more in life, told in two interwoven threads — Joe at the beginning of his journey in Manhattan, and at the end of it as he finds new purpose on a ranch in Montana under the endless sky.

Anthology (Short story)
Montreal Noir
Brooklyn, NY: Akashic, 2017.
PS8257 .M6 M66 2017
Basu, Arjun. “Wild Horse.” In Montreal Noir, edited by John McFetridge & Jacques Filippi. Brooklyn: Akashic, 2017, 107-133.
Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Z1376 .S68 C45 2017