FictionIn Conversation

Meghana Mysore presents "Let All Our Ghosts Depart"

Name: Meghana Mysore presents "Let All Our Ghosts Depart"
Start: 2026-09-08T23:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-09-09T00:30:00+00:00
Location: Greedy Reads Remington

Greedy Reads Remington

320 W 29th St, Baltimore, MD 21211

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

More info ↗

Originally posted by

Greedy Reads ↗

Details can change. Please confirm the date, time, location, and ticketing directly with the organizer before attending.

About this event

Join Meghana Mysore for the release of her debut short story collection, "Let All Our Ghosts Depart", in conversation with Baltimore author Marian Crotty. The event is free to attend, with registration requested. -- In Meghana Mysore's debut short story collection, present-day women and girls of the South Asian diaspora grapple with belonging and are haunted by intergenerational inheritances. Mysore, herself the daughter of Indian immigrants, spins her stories around narrators struggling to assimilate into the surreal world around them. In the world of these stories, ghosts are real: in "Repair Shop," dead mothers reappear as chiding, broken-down cars; in "Hoarder," the narrator's ex-lovers transform into scarves that won't let her go. At turns absurd and darkly humorous, and sometimes speculative, Mysore's stories touch on real-life experiences of intergenerational trauma, womanhood, the fluidity of desire and longing, and coming home to one's body. Each of these stories contains an experience of transformation, be it small or monumental, for these women who find spaces of freedom and delight within their circumstances. (via Greedy Reads)

Featured readers

Meghana Mysore

Meghana Mysore is the author of the story collection Let All Our Ghosts Depart. Her writing has appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Audacity, and more, and she is the winner of the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction. Mysore has been a Steinbeck Fellow and a scholar at McCormack Writing Center and Bread Loaf. She holds an MFA from Hollins University and a BA in English from Yale.

Marian Crotty

Marian Crotty's debut short story collection, What Counts as Love, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, The Sun, Ploughshares, and Best American Short Stories 2020. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an associate professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland.