Sejal Shah

Aug 23, 2024 | massreview.org | Sejal Shah

August 23, 2024 Jim,I expect you would be surprised that your death affected me so much, that I spoke at two services for you, that I am writing about you now. We were friends, but we had not stayed in touch. So, it surprises me too. But you were a friend to me during a difficult time.

Jun 9, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Sejal Shah

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. The linked stories in Sejal Shah’s collectionHow to Make Your Mother Cry brilliantly leverage its hybrid form to create one of the year’s most fascinating books.

Jun 4, 2024 | wxxinews.org | Gino Fanelli |Sejal Shah

The party is over on Hollenbeck Street, as a state Supreme Court judge ruled Tuesday that the makeshift nightclub known as Da Garage is to be boarded up. Judge Joseph Waldorf deemed the property a public nuisance. But homeowner Frederick “Pee Dee” Poole will not be removed from his house in northeast Rochester. Instead, Waldorf ordered the garage to be shuttered for a year and not accessible to anyone, including Poole. Additionally, Poole has until Aug.

Jun 4, 2024 | wxxinews.org | Anastasia Tsioulcas |Sejal Shah

Songwriter and producer Terius “The-Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant – a longtime hitmaker and collaborator of artists including Beyoncé and Rihanna – was accused Tuesday of rape, physical assault, and psychological manipulation by a former protégée. The woman, Chanaaz Mangroe, filed the suit in a Los Angeles district court against Gesteelde-Diamant, as well as the record label Epic Records and a company co-owned by Gesteelde-Diamant called Contra Paris, LLC.

Jun 4, 2024 | wxxinews.org | Becky Sullivan |Sejal Shah

The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has pleaded guilty in federal court on charges related to the theft of nearly $17 million from the player to cover gambling debts. On Tuesday at a federal courthouse in Orange County, Calif., Ippei Mizuhara pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud and falsifying a tax return as part of a plea deal with prosecutors reached last month.