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Reading Catch-22 in Delhi
March 27, 2007
I'm not actually reading it yet, and while I'm determined not to let history repeat itself, I've been hooked on a very slim novel by Leonard Michaels, Sylvia. FSG has collected his short stories, out in June, and sent along a galley of Sylvia as a companion. Michaels made his mark with The Men's Club in 1981--which was made into a movie--but I've always been a huge fan of his short stories. I'd make my writing class at Columbia read "Murderers," about three boys who would perch on a roof ledge on New York City's Lower East Side to look into a tenement window and watch a young rabbi make love to his wife on summer afternoons.
But back to Delhi... Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss is selling like crazy... 200 copies a week just in the tiny bookstore of the Imperial Hotel. It's an interesting store with all of Mario Puzo's books in the fiction section. Business books are popular, and while shopping for wedding clothes I found a spiritual bookstore advertising "better yourself books."
And a little hot pink and turquoise number.
Posted by Louisa Ermelino on March 27, 2007 | Comments (0)
