Hindustan Times
Is writing fiction any different from writing non-fiction? After having published my new novel after two books of non-fiction, I’ve been getting asked this a lot.
My answer – and I know it might sound dilatory/evasive is this: It isn’t, fundamentally, different. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged craft, fiction, Geoff Dyer, imagination, John Updike, language, Martin Amis, non-fiction, research, structure, Zadie Smith
A shorter version of this piece appeared in the print edition of the Hindustan Times on January 31.
And, given that this is a blog, here is some web-only stuff. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 1, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Filed under Page Turner · Tagged Cevdet Bey and His Sons, contemporary literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Nobel Laureate, oorhan pamuk, Soumya Bhattacharya, The White Castle, Turk, Turkey, Vladimir Nabokov
