The Hindu's Literary Review is usually a carefully compiled collection of articles. However some issues can leave you unsatisfied because you are the kind of reader you are and they cannot always please your kind of readers.
Yesterday's issue was a real treat. Orhan Pamuk got a lot of space, there was a review of Theft, but what stood out for me were:
Pradeep Sebastian's In Autumn Radiance on Pico Iyer
Here is an unworldly writer recording the world in all its dark grace. He's probably the only author in the world whose work, in its published form, is seen by his readers even before he has laid eyes on it. Once Iyer sends his work out into the world — whether a book or an essay — he withdraws from finding out what became of it. And even when it comes out, he may not know of it for months!
Anita Nair's musings on chick-lit
IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of chick lit is very seldom a chick herself...
However little known the feelings or views of the chicks themselves with regard to how they are depicted, this truth is so true in the minds of the women of a certain age, that all chick lit is considered their rightful property...
The former convinced me that reading Pico Iyer's essays is merely scratching the surface and that I need to read his books. The latter had me nodding in agreement, which I suspect is a very very early attack of the 40s mindset (if such a thing exists. I am beginning to suspect it exists only in the fertile imagination of the young chicks).
Literary review is my fav supplement of Hindu. Next only to maybe Folio which they stopped.
I too had added Pico iyer's books in my to-read list after reading the review on 'Abandon' .Do let know if u happen to read that book.
Posted by
Anonymous |
12:23 PM, November 08, 2006
and I have been send out the link to the literary review to everyone... :-) It was the best LR I had read in a long time. Endpaper was good and truly heartfelt...
Posted by
Eroteme |
10:15 PM, November 13, 2006