The Audacity.

The Audacity.

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The Audacity.
The Audacity.
Instant Pot Time Machine

Instant Pot Time Machine

The Audacious Book Club Essay Contest Winner

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Nov 27, 2024
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At the end of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Bite by Bite, she offered a series of writing prompts and we invited our readers to write essays inspired by one of those prompts. This essay, “Instant Pot Time Machine” by Taj Zaidi, was the winner, chosen by Aimee herself.

Taj is a Bengali-American writer who grew up nomadically and now lives in Northern Californi…

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Taj Zaidi's writing appears in the Washington Post, Salon, Catapult, Foglifter, and Emerge 2023 by Lambda Literary, where he was an Emerging Voices fellow. When not writing, you can find him onstage or kayaking the Pacific coast. IG: tajzaidiwrites
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