Miranda July’s “Roy Spivey” in The New Yorker:The Writer’s Voice podcast A fictional work, dotted with humour that ends on a sad note, can be devastating, as David Sedaris, who read the story in the podcast, tells Deborah Treisman, the New Yorker fiction editor. Life is Beautiful, film by Roberto Benigni — was heart-wrenching precisely …
YouTube channel “Tristan and the Classics” recommends reading just 12 pages of a classic per day. This 12 pages of a classic per day can be a daily ritual at a time set aside for it. That doesn’t preclude you from reading anything else. I’ll start with Anna Karenina.
While researching topic of submitting a manuscript to a literary agent, I came across the term query. Alyssa Matesic has industry experience of having been in publishing who gives insights into various of publishing from an Anglo-American point-of-view. Top 5 elements of a successful query letter:Alyssa Matesic Notes:Some people say that, in person, you have …
Book Fox, “You’re building characters backwards.” Why are we developing characters based on how they look rather than what they believe in? Build characters based on the following sequence:
The pilgrimage, a travelogue of a graphic novelist through the heartland of the subcontinent is not peaceful, considering the assault of the vibrant public life. Words: quotidian/sacred
The curiosity about what is cannibal about cannibal metaphysics led me to go through a book review of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s Cannibal Metaphysics. While going through the book review, it felt like a Brazilian version of post-colonialism. Non-western systems of knowledge have to be given equal valence. This book is not directly linked to …
As a B1 FLE student, I searched for a French comedy on Netflix India and found Pourris Gâtés (spoiled brats). The millionaire dad who pretends to be broke to reform his spoiled brat children, the plot itself is very humorous, and the film lived up to my expectation. As a genre, it looks like an …
I came across both terms while searching how to blog directly from a mobile phone: “Second Brain” and “Digital Garden”. “Second Brain,” as described by Matt Giaro, focuses on outcome-oriented note-taking for monetizable content creation. It is a commercial version of Tiago Forte’s note-taking life-hack. In contrast, the “Digital Garden,” championed by Maggie Appleton, offers …
I first heard about Hanumankind in Ashwath Kok’s review of Aashiq Abu’s Malayalam film Rifle Club. I have written about how Aashiq Abu foregrounds the collective protagonist in this film, which is also Hanumankind’s debut as an actor. Then I saw Hanumankind on an Apple Music podcast and I realized that he is not just …
At the film’s end, there is an arresting final image of the Rifle Club as a collective protagonist. It dawned on me when Unni Vlogs pointed out in a review that there is no one particular “hero” in the film, despite the unassuming jovial figure of Avaran, the secretary of the Rifle Club. The film …