Self-publishing has never been as popular as it right now in the digital age. With books such as Still Alice by Lisa Genova, E. L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy and No Thanks by E. E. Cummings making it into the mainstream, we can say without a doubt that traditional publishing is far from being the […]
Black Milk is intriguing to read because it is Elif Shafak’s recounting of her struggle with postpartum depression. Because it is Mother’s Day, it is even more important to discuss literature that construes the dark and underrepresented side of motherhood. For the writer of some of my favourite books such as ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’, […]
Writing is oddly not as much about writing as you might think. Writing, for the most part, is a habit and you have to start treating it as one by incorporating it into your life. A writing routine or a habit will require that you build it as a muscle. Writing is largely about staying […]
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy is the ultimate pick for Pride Month and it will take you places. It starts from the old Delhi, a time before Coca Cola had laid siege to the Roofafza empire. We meet Aftab when he is just a boy with a beautiful voice and a dream […]
Holden Caulfield is a character that has largely been remembered for his distaste for the human race in general and yet his unwavering effort to find connection. He captures the essence of being a teenager in The Catcher in the Rye and it is among one of the first and most notable pieces in English […]
Writing a book is always hard. Getting it through the agents and past the editors to the publishers and all the way to the readers, having readers to begin with, is all very hard business. But the hardest part of writing is the ‘writing’. The hardest part yet is getting the pen to the paper […]
The clock had been ticking a while The house was glittering flames by midnight
You know that day never arrives There are always a million miles The sunset I sink into Is always pacing through The walls the absorb every word Don’t even know what they heard Where are then the happy isles In a galaxy of manic rhymes Because there is a deadline To I’ll be just fine […]
For a minute I forgot that the lights were out And the bridges weren’t mending
Remember that there are people who don’t mind when you lie to them. They don’t mind when you tell them stories. So long as you tell a good one. For they have heard many. They need you to make them believe. Believe the things that they don’t see. If you lie to them You’ll have […]
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