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...still do what novels have always done: serve as guides in a confusing world. "Suddenly, everything has changed so much," says novelist and publisher Namita Gokhale. "So people use these books to try to find where they're located in all this." And that has made the new pop fiction a runaway success. Helped additionally by low prices (novels are priced around $5) and new distribution channels (the books are sold on street corners and in department-store chains like Big Bazaar, not just in conventional bookstores), first-time authors are moving more than 20,000 copies a year...
...Indian mass-market publishing." Bhagat's three books, the first of which was published in 2004, have sold more than a million copies. One has been made into a Bollywood film and another is in production. "Chetan Bhagat's success demonstrated that there was a huge market for Indian fiction, with everyday Indian characters acting out everyday Indian stories," says Bose. "Publishers took note that homegrown talent was finding a voice, and that publishing authors like us was not only not risky, but could actually be profitable...
...these authors, and there is a sense of defiance in choosing to write about the present - an insistence that the stories of how Indians live now are just as worthy of being told as the more self-consciously literary sagas set in some supposedly more romantic past. Indian pop fiction might be banished to second-class status by critics, says Bhagat, "but it's not that to the people who read it." For them, it tells the stories of their own lives, and looks ahead to India's thrilling if uncertain future...
...course, I don’t think I did explain how fiction works,” Harvard professor James Wood told an overflowing room of Cambridge locals, students, and fans at the Harvard Bookstore last night, while discussing his latest book “How Fiction Works.” “In my defense, I did not want the book to be called ‘How Fiction Works,’” Wood, who is also a literary critic for The New Yorker, joked. In fact, Wood’s intended title for the book?...
...script presents is a duality that challenges the nature of perception in a scathing and fast-paced social critique. Breaux portrays the important role of Raymond with remarkable ease, imbuing his alter ego with a slightly paranoid sensibility and anxious vulnerability that grounds his situation and the science-fiction component of the narrative in a believable reality. As Raymond reads what is essentially his own death-sentence—“Your soul has spontaneously combusted”—his reaction in all its heightened emotionality is disturbingly relatable, as it provokes viewers to question their...