A Writing Geek

So, who is a real writer, and what is real writing?

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Salman Rushdie has a new book

“I’ll get killed if I talk about it now. Commandos will come through the door.”
Posted by Mrinal Bose at 7:27 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home

Subscribe To

Posts
Atom
Posts

Search This Blog

Labels

Bengali literature "2666" 1Q84 'A' literature Alice Munro Arundhati Roy interview $665000 advance 10 forbidden classics 2010 Nobel Prize winner in literature A Suitable Boy A.S.Byatt Aagunpakhi Aamer Hussein Adam Bodor interview Alasdair Gray interview Ali Sethi Amitav Ghosh interview Anne Enright on Failure Arundhati Roy on fiction Bolano's last interview Carlos Fuentes dies Chinua Achebe interview Cormac McCarthy Dave Eggers on publishing Deborah Levy on writing and reading Dumitru Tsepeneag Eleanor Catton wins the Man Booker Prize 2013 Franz Kafka's dog story George Saunders and his editor Gunter Grass's 1990 diary an unremarkable man

My Blog List

  • Page Views
  • Bloom
  • Blog of a Bookslut
  • Asylum
  • Books LIVE
  • BookDragon
  • Publishing the World
  • An Anthology of Clouds | Every book I read this year.
  • OMNIVORACIOUS
  • stevereads
  • the Literary Saloon
  • Quarterly Conversation
  • Page-Turner
  • INTREPID WRITER
  • Gawker Review of Books
  • Arabic Literature (in English)
  • The Passive Voice - Latest Updates
  • A Newbie's Guide to Publishing
  • Fiction Writers Review | An online literary journal by, for, and about emerging writers.
  • Asian Books Blog
  • NYRBlog - The New York Review of Books
  • Salon.com

Featured Post

No to Literary Fiction, Yes to Porn

I've spent years writing books. Novels, no less. And for what? I'm turning my hand to the one thing that pays. Sex. Lydia Millet...

Total Pageviews

FEEDJIT Live Traffic Map


”Shadowland is not only an important historical novel, documenting the corruption, indifference and impunity that defined the final years of communist rule in West Bengal, it is also a significant anthropological document, rich in detail of the economic, religious, familial, political, and social realities of ordinary life on the periphery of post-colonial Kolkata. It is also an entertaining and well-written story of one man's struggle against the absurdities of modern life.” Janam Mukherjee, PhD Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

A young Hindu woman's breathtaking story of immigration from strife-torn Bangladesh to India

Popular Posts

  • Reading: Gavity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
    Thomas Pynchon's Gavity's Rainbow has 902 pages, and is a difficult novel to read. I've always wanted to read it. But only rece...
  • A Page Is well written when...
    A page is well written when the labour and pleasure of truthful narration supplant any other concern, including a concern with formal elega...
  • Jose Saramago News
    I'm equally excited and disappointed that Jose Saramago, the Nobel Laureate, has started a blog since Sept 17. Excited because I can...
  • Reading: SUBMISSION by Michel Houellebecq
    Submission is about an academic-intellectual's conversion to Islam, It's also about the end of a brilliant intellectual life devote...
  • Reading: ALEEK MANUSH by Syed Mustafa Siraj (Bengali novel)
    I have heard of this novel long since, but only recently had the chance to read it through. Gripping from the very first line, original an...
  • José Manuel Prieto interview
    I can't conceive of writing a novel for which I wouldn't develop a narrative device conceived specifically to tell the story I have...
  • Reading: A Brief History Of Seven Killings/ Marlon James
    I  read about  the novel when the Rooster was going on. I’ve never read Marlon James before, but discussions on the book by Rooster’s jud...
  • Market(share) for literature
      Literature takes up 10  percent   of   the   entire   Chinese   book   market ,  while  it   is  40  percent   in   the   United   States...

Twitter Updates

Twitter Updates

    follow me on Twitter

    Blog Archive

    • ►  2018 (1)
      • ►  February (1)
    • ►  2017 (8)
      • ►  October (4)
      • ►  July (1)
      • ►  June (1)
      • ►  January (2)
    • ►  2016 (85)
      • ►  October (28)
      • ►  September (7)
      • ►  August (5)
      • ►  July (7)
      • ►  June (10)
      • ►  May (6)
      • ►  March (2)
      • ►  February (10)
      • ►  January (10)
    • ►  2015 (137)
      • ►  December (10)
      • ►  November (13)
      • ►  October (18)
      • ►  September (14)
      • ►  August (18)
      • ►  July (12)
      • ►  June (12)
      • ►  May (10)
      • ►  April (5)
      • ►  March (9)
      • ►  February (6)
      • ►  January (10)
    • ►  2014 (80)
      • ►  December (4)
      • ►  November (7)
      • ►  October (8)
      • ►  September (9)
      • ►  August (9)
      • ►  July (13)
      • ►  June (14)
      • ►  May (4)
      • ►  March (1)
      • ►  February (2)
      • ►  January (9)
    • ►  2013 (176)
      • ►  December (5)
      • ►  November (17)
      • ►  October (16)
      • ►  September (16)
      • ►  August (12)
      • ►  July (20)
      • ►  June (17)
      • ►  May (13)
      • ►  April (13)
      • ►  March (14)
      • ►  February (15)
      • ►  January (18)
    • ▼  2012 (182)
      • ►  December (22)
      • ►  November (21)
      • ►  October (23)
      • ▼  September (25)
        • A real writer in the herd
        • Kristín Ómarsdóttir Interview
        • Salwa Bakr Interview
        • Readability and Great Art
        • Nuruddin Farah interview
        • Deborah Levy interview
        • Salman Rushdie on current status of "The Satanic V...
        • Pankaj Mishra reviews Joseph Anton
        • An excerpt from Orhan Pamuk's second novel SILENT ...
        • Jeet Thayil on Narcopolis
        • Deborah Levy on mainstream literary publishing
        • Jeet Thayil Interview
        • Tan Twan Eng interview
        • Zadie Smith interview
        • Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis on 2012 Man Booker shortl...
        • Read an excerpt from Salman Rushdie's new book Jos...
        • Zadie Smith on writing a novel
        • Another Pankaj Mishra interview
        • What the hell?
        • Salman Rushdie has a new book
        • Lit News: Syed Mustafa Siraj passes away
        • Understanding Murakami
        • Ian McEwan interview
        • Herta Müller on writing
        • Ron Rash interview
      • ►  August (13)
      • ►  July (14)
      • ►  June (14)
      • ►  May (9)
      • ►  April (12)
      • ►  March (8)
      • ►  February (8)
      • ►  January (13)
    • ►  2011 (92)
      • ►  December (5)
      • ►  November (5)
      • ►  October (5)
      • ►  September (5)
      • ►  August (11)
      • ►  July (4)
      • ►  June (9)
      • ►  May (17)
      • ►  April (6)
      • ►  March (8)
      • ►  February (8)
      • ►  January (9)
    • ►  2010 (80)
      • ►  December (7)
      • ►  November (5)
      • ►  October (11)
      • ►  September (4)
      • ►  August (7)
      • ►  July (12)
      • ►  June (8)
      • ►  May (6)
      • ►  April (3)
      • ►  March (4)
      • ►  February (8)
      • ►  January (5)
    • ►  2009 (122)
      • ►  December (6)
      • ►  November (5)
      • ►  October (8)
      • ►  September (9)
      • ►  August (8)
      • ►  July (15)
      • ►  June (7)
      • ►  May (13)
      • ►  April (11)
      • ►  March (11)
      • ►  February (11)
      • ►  January (18)
    • ►  2008 (71)
      • ►  December (11)
      • ►  November (12)
      • ►  October (15)
      • ►  September (11)
      • ►  August (4)
      • ►  July (5)
      • ►  June (8)
      • ►  May (2)
      • ►  March (2)
      • ►  February (1)
    • ►  2007 (23)
      • ►  December (2)
      • ►  November (1)
      • ►  September (1)
      • ►  August (5)
      • ►  July (7)
      • ►  June (7)
    Travel theme. Powered by Blogger.