The Lounge Chair Interview: 10 Questions with Usha K. R.

By Monideepa Sahu

Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write?

To make sense of the world; to explore and order to my thoughts and feelings and understanding of it. Or to quote Flannery O’ Connor who said fiction is concerned ‘with that is lived; ultimate mystery as we find it embodied in the concrete world of sense experience’.

Tell us about your most recent book or writing project. What were you trying to say or achieve with it?

It’s still gestating

Describe your writing aesthetic.

Lots of idle thinking time to allow thoughts to gather and connections to form. Then, when I am ready, a disciplined writing schedule.