Jai Chakrabarti on "Let's Deconstruct a Story

Preview of Let's Deconstruct a Story featuring Jai Chakrabarti talking about his wonderful story, “A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness.” Please find the link to the story on kellyfordon.com and at LitHub. It’s best to read the story before listening to the podcast.
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Bio:
O. Henry and Pushcart Prize winner Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World (Knopf ’21), which earned him the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. The novel was also recognized as the Association of Jewish Libraries Honor Book, a finalist for the Rabindranath Tagore Prize, and long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Chakrabarti is also the author of the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Knopf), which was included in several end-of-year lists, including The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023. His short fiction has been published in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, One Story, Electric Literature, A Public Space, Conjunctions, and elsewhere and performed on Selected Shorts by Symphony Space.
Beyond fiction, Chakrabarti’s nonfiction has been widely published in journals such as The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Writer’s Digest, Berfrois, and LitHub. He was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. Despite his literary pursuits, Chakrabarti is also a trained computer scientist.
Born in Kolkata, India, he currently lives in New York with his family and is a faculty member at Bennington Writing Seminars.
Jai’s books are available on Bookshop or Amazon.