Antiblurbs

You can buy them. You can borrow them. You can download them. But are all those books out there really worth your while? Herewith some brief assessments.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Tales Of The Alhambra

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This week's column for the Sunday Guardian . Restoration in progress in an Alhambra courtyard In an alcove of the former pal...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

When Fiction Is In Fashion

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Today's Sunday Guardian column With much fanfare, Banana Republic recently launched a clothing line inspired by Tolstoy's An...

Rants From Underground

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My Sunday Guardian column of November 11 “I am a sick man…I am a wicked man”. That’s how Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground starts, ...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Satire With Chinese Characteristics

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This appeared in today's DNA . LENIN'S KISSES Yan Lianke In Tom Robbins’s debut novel, the countercultural Another Roadside ...

The Long And Short Of Stories

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . Is there such a thing as a typical American short story? Some will answer that question by point...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Why Penguin Random House Should Merge With Me

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Dear Messrs Pearson and Bertelsmann, Congratulations on the creation of Ranguin. I know you’ve decided to go with another name, but I...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Not Brought To Book

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My Sunday Guardian column. Because soon, we may encounter bookstores only in works of fiction. Anyone who likes reading probably has...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Perils Of Writing When Online

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My column for The Sunday Guardian Is that the time? I’d better start writing this column: if I don’t get it done soon, I’m going t...
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Many More Ramayanas

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This appeared in today's DNA BREAKING THE BOW: SPECULATIVE FICTION INSPIRED BY THE RAMAYANA Edited by Anil Menon and Vandana Singh ...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

When Fiction Goes Digital

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Today's column for the Sunday Guardian . It’s been said many times that if Shakespeare were alive today, he’d be writing for TV....
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