Karan Mahajan

Biography

Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning (Harper Perennial, 2008), a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Association of Small Bombs (Viking, 2016), which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award, won the 2017 NYPL Young Lions Award, and was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s “Ten Best Books of 2016.” In 2017, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker.com, and the New Republic.

See Work

FICTION / Summer 2018

Wrong Yoga

By Karan Mahajan ,  Illustration by Sergio García Sánchez

Of all the types of yoga practiced in the US today—Hatha yoga, Ashtanga yoga,Vinyasa yoga, Bikram yoga—the one that I enjoy most happens to be the one that I invented. I like to call this type of yoga “wrong yoga.”