Bibliofile
You've heard about the highest sum for a debut novel. Now guess how much Gouri Dange of 3 Zakia Mansion fame got paid for a contribution to an anthology...
Fickle, Like Eros
Anthologies are usually the quickest—and cheapest—way for a publisher to get a book out on any subject. But Random House had little luck when it commissioned Ruchir Joshi for its first anthology on erotica. Differences with their chief editor made Ruchir flounce off with the collection to Westland. With Ruchir having disappeared from Delhi’s year-long book party scene, little has been heard of the anthology.
As Good as a Guess
Do you have to be a good person to be a good artist? That debate has apparently been set to rest in 1840—in UK, at any rate—but it hasn’t stopped Derek Walcott’s detractors from raking up his past cases of sexual harrassment as the race for the Oxford poetry professor hots up.