Outlook India takes a look at Kamala Markandaya, who passed away a week and a half ago. Markandaya was a pioneering Indian author writing in English, best known for Nectar in a Sieve.
Author / DrMabuse
There Are Better Ways to Relieve Depression Than a Disappearing Act — Hassling Scientologists is a Start
The Last Samurai (which has nothing to do with Tom Cruise) author Helen DeWitt has pulled a Spalding Gray. She disappeared shorty after emailing a friend that she was feeling depresed.
[8/29/05 UPDATE: We never bothered to report it, but Helen Dewitt was eventually found in Niagra Falls. In February, Ron Hogan reported that she was back writing: specifically, this “Letter to an Undergraduate.”]
Separated at Birth?
LEFT: Lynndie England
RIGHT: Fairuza Balk in American History X
Super Blog Me
Apparently Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock has a blog.
And There’s A Touch of Eggers In There Too
My man Rake reports that “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature,” a story from David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion is up. The big surprises? No footnotes or use of “w/r/t.”