Gautam Malkani on Weekend Edition
Sunday July 30, 2006
Gautam Malkani spoke on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon about Londonstani.
Malkani explains how he constructed the unique slang his South Asian street teen characters speak, and he gives the ... Read More
Kirkus 2006 Autumn and Winter Special
Wednesday July 26, 2006
Kirkus Reviews' 2006 Autumn and Winter Special previews some of the highlights of the coming season, among them childhood memoirs from Bill Bryson and Jonathan Franzen; Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games, ... Read More
Microserfs, Part Deux
Sunday July 23, 2006
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company. The six JPodders wage daily ... Read More
Anonymous Lawyer: Blog and Book
Friday July 21, 2006
This looks hilarious:
"Meet Anonymous Lawyer -- corner office, granite desk, and a billable rate of $675 an hour. The summer is about to start, and he's got a new crop ... Read More
Read a Plastic Book Today
Wednesday July 19, 2006
In case you missed it (which I did, until now), the New York Times ran an article last week about the greening of the publishing industry entitled, "Saving the Planet, ... Read More
Londonstani by Gautam Malkani
Monday July 17, 2006
Gautam Malkani's Londonstani portrays the lives of young Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu men in the ethnically charged enclave of one of the biggest western cities, London. A world usually-but wrongly-portrayed ... Read More
Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
Friday July 14, 2006
"New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets out on her latest rounds to haul in bonds-jumping "skips." She soon finds herself followed by a strange woman looking for Carlos "Ranger" ... Read More
It was a dark and stormy night...
Wednesday July 12, 2006
Retired mechanical designer, Jim Guigli, won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest on Tuesday. The BLFC, sponsored by San Jose State University's English Department, awards the worst opening sentence to a ... Read More
Back to Wando Passo
Sunday July 9, 2006
In Back to Wando Passo, David Payne "captures the essence of two distinct eras in the South, imbuing them with so much reality that we need a fan for the ... Read More
The Futurist
Tuesday July 4, 2006
He makes a spectacular living traveling the globe and spouting prepackaged wisdom to the leaders of government and business, but a Dear John letter from his girlfriend and mini-bar's worth ... Read More
Robert Sullivan Channels Lewis and Clark
Sunday July 2, 2006
The New York Times has a review of Robert Sullivan's Cross Country, in which the author recounts a road trip from Oregon to New York with his wife and two ... Read More