tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post7291142354424634131..comments2024-03-29T15:45:04.867+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Literature without the books that comprise itJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-38942030738601551892011-02-11T09:53:06.850+05:302011-02-11T09:53:06.850+05:30That piece on Kiran Desai's interview that Cha...That piece on Kiran Desai's interview that Chandrahas refers to - yes, it's catty, but it's also bang on. She did come across like a giggly airhead. He says that journos like that view "literature less as an autonomous entity with books at its centre, and more as a subset of the celebrity-and-entertainment-gossip industry" - substitute the JLF for the word literature in that para, and it is quite accurate in that the JLF does encourage a bit of the celebrity culture, so naturally the journos would too. Look at the sessions with Candace Bushnell this year and Chetan Bhagat last year - or the near stampede with the hindi lyricists - it was naked celebrity veneration, so can you really blame journos for poking fun at this? I think any serious minded journo would have found it difficult to write a serious minded piece on Kiran Desai's interview.Priyanoreply@blogger.com