“Miss Manhattan” by Biman Roy was displayed at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (LATFOB) – Book Gallery
“Miss Manhattan” by Biman Roy was among the books displayed by Author Reputation Press during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2023 at the University of Southern California on April 22-23, 2023.
The much-anticipated annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2023 was held on April 22–23, 2023. It was attended by nearly 500 authors and hundreds of exhibitors. The festival was launched to connect individuals who read books with those who write them. The range of book genres exhibited at the festival captivated readers of all ages. Witness musical performances, readings from authors, exciting exhibits, and much more!
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Author Reputation Press is committed to connecting readers and authors through books. ARP participated in the book gallery organized by LATFOB. In line with this, ARP exhibited some of its spectacular books to the festival audience. The wide selection of genres made the gallery more enticing.
Biman Roy has been composing poetry for three decades and has had several publications. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Biman Roy has two poetry chapbooks, “Dinosaur Hour” and “Navigating the Quartz Forest,” and one prose poetry chapbook, “Of Moon and Washing Machine.” He is a psychiatrist who works as a consultant at a New York hospital. He currently resides in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Visit Biman Roy’s website at https://roybiman.com/.
“Miss Manhattan” truly captures the richness of diversity and the simultaneity of life happening in New York. The text is rich, tumbling, and layered, yet never chaotic, as the sensations of people, cars, birds, flowers, and all forms of city life cascade around the speaker’s (and reader’s) attention.
Biman Roy was interviewed by Logan Crawford of Spotlight TV to talk about his poetry book “Miss Manhattan” and his other masterpieces. This interview allows readers to get to know more about the author. Click on this link to watch the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quw6e4M3lyU&list=PLwht86BFh1FhPjfIzfn6NaWpin7rplic3.
He was also interviewed by Benji Cole of CBS Radio to discuss his book, “Miss Manhattan.” Click on this link to listen to the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv8sm8TUhbQ.
This masterpiece was praised by Jonah Meyer of the US Review of Books, to wit, “The true draw of these poetic selections, elements sure to please any reader appreciative of rich imagery and narrative, lies in the casual observations of NYC people, places, and happenings. In the poem “Only Here,” for example, Roy writes: “When I walk in the shade of a side street, / a pizza deliveryman bicycles past my dreaming self / with a red and blue cape, and a young woman / wearing a blooming magnolia blouse bends over / through her second-floor window and reads / from War and Peace loudly to the crowd below.” Later, in “Picasso at the Park,” the author writes of the “wind over the Hudson,” describing the “soft, moist grass of Central Park.” A showing of Picasso’s paintings features women, wandering animals, violin and guitar, all “signs of life on earth.”
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