Akhil M Sharma
Books and essays. Non-fiction you can use, fiction you can't forget.
I'm Akhil. I write from Granada, a city that has been holding writers for centuries — Lorca grew up in its gardens, Cervantes crossed its bridges, Washington Irving slept in its palace and woke up changed. I don't compare myself to them; I just try to deserve the rooms I work in.
My non-fiction is what I've learned from living — often the hard way, often from books that refused to leave me alone. My fiction is what the non-fiction can't say.
One letter a week. Seven books on the way. You're on time.
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Unfold
Fifteen books, fifteen stories, one argument about how we actually learn. Written for people who are tired of reading the same ideas in different packaging.
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All essays →What fiction teaches that non-fiction can't
The growth shelf and the literature shelf are usually treated as different disciplines. One is practical, the other decorative. I don't think this is right.
How to read a book you won't remember in a month
Reading for retention, reading for effect, and the difference that matters.
Why I still read self-help
On taking seriously a genre most readers pretend to have outgrown.
Writer from India, living in Granada.
I have seven books on the way — the first, Unfold, is a distillation of fifteen books on growth told through the stories from my life where they actually meant something. The second is a collection of short stories. After that: three novels and a trilogy.
I also run a small agency and am building an app. But the writing is the work.
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