Hindustan Times
March 5, Saturday, is World Book Day.
Now, on principle, I abhor celebrating all those designated days that our calendars are so full with nowadays Read more
(3 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Father’s Day, fiction, hindustan times, marketing codswallop, Mother’s Day, news, non-fiction, Valentine’s Day, World Book Day
I tend to read fiction and non-fiction often at the same time, or at least I alternate one with the other. Then come those not-so-often periods when I end up reading only the one. The past week has been like that. Read more
(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, January 17, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Christopher Hitchens, Diana Athill, Down and Out in Paris and London, fiction, George Orwell, memoir, non-fiction, Penguin Modern Classics, reading list, Somewhere towards the End, VS Naipaul
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
(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) 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
