"suddenly the writer had liberated the story from the novel"

[pynchonoid]

 Outlook India, 16.10.2006 (India)

Eleven years of Outlook India. The magazine is full of
literary and other retrospectives. Sheela Reddy
observes that this was the decade of the non-fiction
work: "Interpreting modern times, after all, is a
highly creative endeavour and who better than a Salman
Rushdie or a Arundhati Roy to make sense of it all for
us in tomorrow's newspaper? Perhaps we can no longer
afford the luxury of waiting the three to seven years
it takes a writer to create his parallel world and
characters—we want them now, parallel universe and
storyline be damned.... Perhaps it was 9/11 or an idea
whose time had come, but suddenly the writer had
liberated the story from the novel. Storytelling, and
compelling storytelling at that, no longer needed the
camouflage of a novel." Authors who have declined this
"camouflage" are Roy and Vikram Seth, Reddy believes,
asking whether the Booker Prize shouldn't be opened up
to works of non-fiction.

In other articles: Khushwant Singh lists his fiction
favourites of the past eleven years, while Tabish
Khair portrays his all-time favourite: Amitav Gosh.
And Aniruddha Bahal reviews the state of the press,
calling for more investigative journalism (for example
against muftis who proclaim fatwas for money).

http://www.signandsight.com/features/991.html

Can't afford to wait for a novel?  Obviously not a
Pynchon reader.


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