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Vogue India August 2020
Harpers Bazaar India July 2020
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
Vogue India August 2020: my publishing journey from pandemic despair to bestselling success.
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
Harpers Bazaar India July 2020
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
Vogue India August 2020: my publishing journey from pandemic despair to bestselling success.
Harpers Bazaar India July 2020
Harpers Bazaar India July 2020
Harpers Bazaar India July 2020
Harpers Bazaar India July 2020: A debut author at 62 writing about her mother's alternate reality.
Your Story October 2020
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
Harpers Bazaar India July 2020
Alka Joshi’s evocative novel The Henna Artist — which is now being translated in 23 languages — will soon be made into a TV adaptation starring Freida Pinto, takes you to another world as you follow the life of a henna artist.
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
Women Writers Fest
Alka Joshi in a conversation with
Author Yamini Pustake Bhalerao for SheThePeople
BookBub September 2020
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
Carmel Magazine Summer 2020
21 Excellent Debut Novels You Might’ve Missed Joshi’s debut was met with instant acclaim, and a mere two months following its publication, it became Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick for the month of May
SheReads August 2020
LIVE with Reese Witherspoon May 2020
The Week Magazine Sept 2020
Reading The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi felt like I was living in Jaipur myself, alongside Lakshmi, Radha and Malik, three of the book’s protagonists trying to make their way in India’s famed Pink City.
The Week Magazine Sept 2020
LIVE with Reese Witherspoon May 2020
The Week Magazine Sept 2020
Reading The Henna Artist is like travelling in a car that is going at just the right speed. At times, author Alka Joshi stops to point out sights and scenes on the way. At other times, she revs up the story and you find yourself on a thrilling ride to an unknown destination. And that is the best part. Just when you think you know where you are headed, Joshi takes a turn that leaves you completely in the lurch.
LIVE with Reese Witherspoon May 2020
LIVE with Reese Witherspoon May 2020
LIVE with Reese Witherspoon May 2020
Reading The Henna Artist is like travelling in a car that is going at just the right speed. At times, author Alka Joshi stops to point out sights and scenes on the way. At other times, she revs up the story and you find yourself on a thrilling ride to an unknown destination. And that is the best part. Just when you think you know where you are headed, Joshi takes a turn that leaves you completely in the lurch.
Lockdown Book Events
May 1: Reese Witherspoon picks The Henna Artist for her book club
May 1: Reese Witherspoon picks The Henna Artist for her book club
May 1: Reese Witherspoon picks The Henna Artist for her book club
Actress, Producer and Book Club maven Reese Witherspoon selects The Henna Artist for her May Book Club.
May 27: Keplers/Menlo Park Virtual Book Reading
May 1: Reese Witherspoon picks The Henna Artist for her book club
May 1: Reese Witherspoon picks The Henna Artist for her book club
In Conversation with in-house journalist Angie Coiro, Keplers, Menlo Park, 7pm PT (Zoom) at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alka-joshi-with-angie-coiro-registration-103553611640?aff=news
May 13: LIVE Indigo Booksellers - A conversation with Alka Joshi
May 1: Reese Witherspoon picks The Henna Artist for her book club
May 13: LIVE Indigo Booksellers - A conversation with Alka Joshi
Canadian Indigo booksellers tune in to learn more about The Henna Artist with author Alka Joshi: 2PM EDT/11 AM PT
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7415887908711/WN_FT3k2s3wQ1K5ZfZV055_Dw
May 10: Mothers Day Interview with United Nations Association
May 29: California College of Arts - Alka interviews global henna artists about the 5000-year craft
May 13: LIVE Indigo Booksellers - A conversation with Alka Joshi
Alka Joshi In Conversation with Bhavna Anna Guyadeen, President at UNA.com about strong portrayals of women (on Zoom, to be posted on UNA.com)
May 29: California College of Arts - Alka interviews global henna artists about the 5000-year craft
May 29: California College of Arts - Alka interviews global henna artists about the 5000-year craft
May 29: California College of Arts - Alka interviews global henna artists about the 5000-year craft
Alka interviews 3 renowned henna artists around the world about the healing properties of the henna plant and its widening reach today.
June 11: Litquake on Lockdown - In conversation with Tom Barbash
May 29: California College of Arts - Alka interviews global henna artists about the 5000-year craft
May 29: California College of Arts - Alka interviews global henna artists about the 5000-year craft
Tom Barbash, author of 5 books, talks to Alka Joshi about her debut novel The Henna Artist, her writing process and promotion in the age of COVID.
Praise for The Henna Artist
The henna artist at the core of Alka Joshi’s superb first novel is unforgettable. Through her work painting henna onto women's bodies in the boudoirs of the upper class as well as in the hovels of the poor, Lakshmi brings us face to face with the complexity of life in post-independence India. Her plans for self-sufficiency, which are as artful as her designs, have us cheering for her even as she encounters obstacles that threaten to destroy her. Read this book slowly and savor it: Every page is rich with intricate pleasures for both the mind and the heart.
Anita Amirrezvani
Bestselling Author of The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the Sun
The Henna Artist is like a brilliant, magical kaleidoscope, bursting with color. Through her vivid, compelling portrait of one woman's struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, debut novelist Alka Joshi opens a door into a world that is at once lush, fascinating, stark, and cruel. "The Henna Artist" kept me riveted from start to finish, consumed by the question posed by all great fiction: what happens next?
Lauren Belfer
New York Times Bestselling author of And After the Fire and City of Light.
Alka Joshi is a remarkable new writer with the novelistic gifts of a seasoned veteran. The Henna Artist is a bold, ambitious, beautifully written novel, about India in the decade after independence, and about class, identity, love, and deceit. The broad cast of characters will etch themselves in your psyche, most of all Lakshmi and Radha—both cursed and gifted by fate.
Tom Barbash
New York Times Bestselling author of Stay Up With Me and Dakota Winters
About Alka Joshi
Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, Alka Joshi has lived in the U.S. since the age of nine. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, became a NYT bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub pick, an LA Times bestseller, a USA Today bestseller, Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a top 10 Goodreads book of 2020, and is being developed for an episodic TV series starring Freida Pinto. The sequel, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, premieres June 22 from Mira Books. Currently, she's working on the third book of the trilogy. Alka interviews extraordinary female writers, editors and filmmakers on her Instagram @thealkajoshi and shares her writing tips on her YouTube Channel. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
See her videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNLMIc32Z-y4hzkiE3o6rQ
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How to get a hold of me...
Folio Literary Agency
Margaret Sutherland Brown, 646.817.3341, margaret@foliolit.com
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