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At Chennai Book Fair, a stall dedicated for van Gogh
The stall has books about van Gogh, with the special book being the letters he wrote to his brother
Non-fiction corner: Browsing Is a Pleasure in This History of the...
12 Aug 2024 12:45 AMAs Friss acknowledges, bookstores are “places to lose and find oneself” and therefore frequent settings for “sappy and tropey” romantic comedy. Fred...
Writer’s Block: Paul Theroux on Necessary Solitude, Risks and the Joy...
8 July 2024 12:30 AMAfter 60 years and almost as many books, the novelist and travel writer, 83, will stop when he falls out of his chair.
Stranger Than Fiction: How bunnies made inroads into our stories
30 March 2024 2:00 AMBut this is an old state of affairs, going back to the bunnies’ wild antecedents: rabbits and hares. Hares were pagan symbols of fertility (for...
Flipping pages of female fortitude
19 March 2024 1:30 AMOne of the prime motives of the library at the Goethe-Institut is to promote reading, create awareness and sensitise readers about German and Indian...
Booksmart: New publisher promises authors ‘lion’s share of profit’
6 March 2024 1:30 PMThe new house is small, with just six employees, but its founders hope that their experience and approach to publishing will attract writers. Contrary...
Let's read a book in a park near you
15 Feb 2024 1:30 AMResidents of north Chennai welcomed the Chennai Corporation’s ‘Reading Zone’ initiative. However, they are also uncertain over its sustainability. DT...
Publishers’ goal in Stall 33: Creating political awareness
20 Jan 2024 1:00 AMThere are 6 volumes on communism that are generally sold for Rs 1,200 but at the fair, it’s sold at a discounted price of Rs 800.