Did you party well in the weeks gone by? Or are you still partying? With the official winter party season drawing to a close, I have for you a set of interesting images that show writers partying hard. Read more

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One can’t spend the last week of the year without making at least one ‘best of’ list. This list isn’t, by my reckoning, a list of the best books of 2011. Rather, it offers a compendium of some of the books I have enjoyed and admired this year. Read more

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Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, December 26, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged 2011, A Tragic Honesty, Alan Hollinghurst, Aravind Adiga, BCCI, Blake Bailey, books of 2011, David Peace, Ernest Hemingway, First Forty Nine Stories, Gideon Haigh, hindustantimes, Jeffrey Eugenides, Julian Barnes, lalit modi, Page Turner, Siddhartha Deb, Soumya Bhattacharya, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Damned United, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Last Man in Tower, The Marriage Plot, The Sense of an Ending, The Sphere of Influence, The Stranger's Child, Tracy Chevalier
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
While away on a break, I got lots of reading done. That was one of the points of the break in any case. The university in England at which I was a Visiting Fellow and Writer in Residence has a terrific library. Read more

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Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, July 25, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Collected Stories, David Nicholls, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, Frank, hindustan times, Jennifer Egan, Jon McGregor, Joseph O'Connor, Men Without Women, My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories, news, O’Connor, Soumya Bhattacharya, Tessa Hadley, VS Pritchett’s Selected Stories
As part of its Christmas books special, the Guardian did a wonderful, imaginative thing. Read more

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