Well, the season of litfests is over and now those who write can get on with their writing without performance anxiety - that I suffer from - and those who hustle - which I sadly can't do - can rest their pitches. Hallelujah!
@NirmalaGovindar Hey Nimmie! Reading your terrific new book - Hunger's Daughters! You have a way with language - sinuous comes to mind! I wish you gobs of good luck.
The difference between writers and critics is that in order to function in their trade, writers must live in the world, and critics, to survive in the world, must live in literature. That’s why writers in their own work need have nothing to do with criticism... (Grace Paley)
An interview with me for my novel in Hindu's Metroplus! I hope it will kindle interest and curiosity, and explain the novel a little. For the rest, READ IT! The novel, I mean. (This is unabashed peddling!)
https://t.co/evNs6M81jV
In my novel The Escapists of J Mullick Road, one of the protagonists, the architect Biren Roy, says one has to continue engaging with the mind, against all odds - in his case an indifferent and ignorant city - because that's what keeps civilization afloat.
A favourite quote from Saul Bellow's Augie March:
"I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor. Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back in chains. Which didn’t prove there was no America."