Conversation in a Dead Language: Interview with American author Lee Siegel
This interview first appeared as part of my Book Chaat series on Rediff.com An American by birth and nationality, Lee Siegel is no foreigner to India in the literary sense. He’s a trained magician and professor of Indian religions at the University of Chicago. Formerly, he was with the University of Hawaii, where he penned [...]
If Sage Narada Was A Blogger: Srimad Bhagvatam Retold by Bangalorean Saravan Kumar
Discovered this very nice blog. No, it’s not by Sage Narada, but if the great voluble seer was around today, perhaps this is what his blog might have been like! It’s a blog dedicated to retelling the stories of Srimad Bhagvatam, which, as you probably know already, was a minor collection of mythological tales from [...]
Sleepless in Seattle: Book Review of Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
When I first read about the American romance publisher Harlequin starting a fantasy line, I wasn’t sure whether to be thrilled or wary. After all, category romances are no longer the most exciting reads. Even the sales figures reflect that fact, with ‘big’ multi-character novels like The Ya-Ya Sisterhood and crossover genre novels like the [...]
