Two book podcasts I listen to regularly.
CBC Writers & Company
Eleanor Wachtel is probably the finest interviewer of writers out there. Give a listen to her recent interviews. In one of the episodes, Orhan Pamuk is interviewed and what he said about V S Naipaul is still on my mind. Naipaul, Pamuk says, sought the center of colonizers to understand his own place while he (Pamuk) does not feel the need to go out of Turkey (Pamuk rarely goes out of Istanbul) since Turkey was never colonized. In another episode, Arthur C Clarke is interviewed. Mind filling.
World Book Club
Another podcast that is a great place to spend your time.
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Last night we hosted a meeting of our Boston based bookclub. We discussed Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow. Next up is Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal.
tags: The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize for Public Health, humor,
In The Hindu.
NL: But in a society like India, how can we ignore the divisiveness, the poverty?
Every week, the Kansas Guild of Bloggers gathers to share the finest craftsmanship in the bloggish arts. This week brought us 5 submissions, plus a few posts that I snagged on my own.