Tag: prose

• Amit Chaudhuri, The Immortals

  It’s been a long time coming. Except that Amit Chaudhuri wouldn’t have used those words sung by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The gifted Indian writer,who teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia, prefers Indian classical music. An accomplished singer himself, he pays homage to the music in The Immortals. Now don’t  let…

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  Abhijit

  April 4, 2010

  Books

  a strange and sublime address, afternoon raag, amit chaudhuri, an equal music, bombay, classical, indian, language, music, novel, prose, salman rushdie, the ground beneath her feet, the immortals, vikram seth

• Updike, the most sensuous writer in English

  The most sensuous writer in the English language is dead. No one wrote more sensuous prose than John Updike. He carried his lyricism into his 70s. He was 76 when he died yesterday. The cause was lung cancer, according to his publisher, Alfred A Knopf. He was – for his style and views perhaps –…

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  Abhijit

  January 28, 2009

  Books

  barack obama, henry bech, john updike, language, middle class, prose, rabbit, rabbit angstrom, sex, suburb, writer, writing