A special edition of Bengal Lights, Bangladesh’s leading English language literary journal, guest-edited by the editors of the Unnamed Press and Phoneme Media. A liberal exploration of the concept of “the guest” featuring Etgar Keret, Mario Bellatin, Sesshu Foster, Ben Ehrenreich, Stacy Hardy, Douglas Kearney, Amjad Nasser, Rita Indiana, Pavel Šrut, Inongo-vi-Makomè, Angie Cruz, Antonella Anedda, Sharbari Z. Ahmed, Paul Holzman, Carly J. Hallman, Ramón Esono Ebalé, Prisionero Gringo, Khademul Islam, Mandy Kahn, Nylsa Martínez, Anthony Seidman, Nazir Hossain, Malka Older, Sudipta Chakma Mikado, Katia Kapovich, Zvonko Karanovic, Edwin Smet, J.C. Reyes, and Ikhtisad Ahmed.
About the author
C.P. Heiser is the Publisher of the Los Angeles-based Unnamed Press and
Executive Director of its sister nonprofit Phoneme Media. He was deeply
involved with helping start up the
Los Angeles Review of Books, where he
headed various aspects of marketing, communications, and development,
and where he remains as an Editor-at-large. Before moving to Los Angeles,
he worked at The New Press and John Wiley & Sons.
David Shook is a poet, translator, and filmmaker in Los Angeles, where
he is Editorial Director of Phoneme Media. He has been an Olympic
Torchbearer, visited Antarctica, and bred a pod of hippopotamuses. In his
spare time he serves as the Republic of Burundi’s Honorary Consul to Los
Angeles. He’s currently writing a book of nonfiction titled
MEGA and a
novel called White Lobster.