page_title: Rakesh Satyal
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Rakesh Satyal / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: From left to right: Writers Xiaolu Guo, Robie Harris, Rakesh Satyal and Lynne Tillman at the "Something to Hide" panel at the the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival, in which they discussed how government surveillance programs have spurred some writers to avoid writing on topics that might subject them to scrutiny, and whether this threatens artistic and intellectual freedom. This photo was created by Luigi Novi. It is not in the public domain, and use of this file outside of the licensing terms is a copyright violation. If you would like to use this image outside of the Wikimedia projects, you may do so, only if I am properly credited, either by linking the photograph to this page, or with an easily visible credit placed near the photo in each instance in which it is used. Please credit authorship as follows: &#160;© Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons. Please maintain the original file name in all uses. You can see a gallery of some of my other photos here. If you have any questions, you can contact me by sending me an email or leaving a note at the bottom of my Wikipedia talk page.
context_page_description: Rakesh Satyal is an American novelist, best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel Blue Boy. Blue Boy won the 2009 Prose/Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies and was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and Satyal was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
context_section_description: With the exception of a few years in the world of branding, Satyal has worked in book publishing since 2001, when he was an intern at Random House. He worked at what was formerly known as the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, then HarperCollins. He is currently a Senior Editor at Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. Over the course of his career, he has worked with such authors as Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Terry Castle, Paulo Coelho, Joey Graceffa, Vestal McIntyre, Armistead Maupin, Rahul Mehta, Ann Powers, and Paul Rudnick.
  Blue Boy was published in 2009. Satyal’s second novel, No One Can Pronounce My Name, was published in May 2017 by Picador USA. His work has also appeared in the anthologies The Man I Might Become, Fresh Men 2, The Letter Q, and Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey. Satyal sometimes performs in New York City as a singer. His cabaret act has been mentioned in The New Yorker, the New York Observer, and Page Six. He also garnered attention for his acceptance speech at the Lambda Literary Awards gala, which he sang to the tune of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance".
  His novel No One Can Pronounce My Name is being made into a film by Christine Vachon of Killer Films.
caption: From left to right: Xiaolu Guo, Robie Harris, Satyal and Lynne Tillman speaking on the effect of government surveillance on author self-censorship, with other authors at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival
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