June , 2009
Book Club: Author Mohsin Hamid shares snippets
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SNIPPETS SNIPPETS SNIPPETS News of the new Haruki Murakami book 1Q84 that's hit stores in Japan this past weekend, and sold out already! It's 2 volumes, and 1,055 pages in total. Now to wait for the English translation! Is this all the way at the other end of the literary spectrum or what?! Former US VP Dick Cheney is looking to score a multi-million dollar book contract... a book on the Bush years is in the offing. I've finally got into Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, just one book down but dying to start New Moon (is Edward Cullen the most fabulous vampire of all time or what?!) And publishers Hachette say she's "single-handedly propping up a recessionary market in the West". With good reason too! (BTW the publishing house is tapping into that, organising "Twilight saga/ vampire-themed cocktails"... Weekly vampire nights in Delhi, Kolkata,....
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Amrita Tripathi is a news anchor with CNN-IBN, and also doubles up as Health and Books Editor. An MA in Philosophy from St Stephen's College, Delhi University, she has also taught a few undergraduate classes at her alma mater, informally! When she is not tracking health issues, Amrita is busy chasing the literary dream. Her debut novel Broken News was published in 2010. Before joining CNN-IBN, Amrita worked with The Indian Express.
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