Ernest Hemingway is one of the first great writers we read as adolescents. By the time I was 19, I had – like many of my friends – exhausted his entire oeuvre. Read more

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Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 17, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged A Moveable Feast, Books, England, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F Scott Fitzgerald, First Forty Nine Stories, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Julian Barnes, Men Without Women, nobel prize, Page Turner, The Old Man and the Sea, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(The following essay is adapted from a public lecture I delivered at the University of Chichester in Sussex earlier this year.) Read more

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Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 10, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged Blake Morrison, Calcutta, Doris Lessing, Granta editor, In Cold Blood, memoirs, Nirad Chaudhuri, novel, Review of Books Classic, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, VS Naipaul