“A couple of years ago, you invited me to edit one of your issues, and that was a very different experience. For the first time I was not the one asking to be published….I took the job very seriously. I wanted to do for writers what other writers and editors had done for me.”

“I think what's important is to look at your own obsessions, whether it's a family tale that you remember and wonder about, like some missing great grandmother whom you’ve heard stories about, or maybe something happened in your town years ago, and you thought, well, that's a weird story.”

Members Only author Sameer Pandya talks with Yoojin Na about the ideal measure of novelistic time, India, layered moments in fiction, and the grace of tennis.

“…love complicates things as it should.”

“Half my year I don't write at all because I’m fishing.”

Chipper? Builder? I'm neither. When I'm writing, I'm a blindfolded man trying to play tennis.