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Chicken dancing, naughty Tamil literature, and Rana Dasgupta goes Solo (outdoors)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Galle Literary Festival diary – part 3.

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Ashok Ferrey, Blaft, Cyril Connolly, David Blacker, Ian Rankin, Kaveri Lalchand, Malinda Seneviratne, Neluka Silva, Pradeep Jeganathan, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Sarnath Banerjee, Shehan Karunatilaka, Smriti Daniel, Solo | Comments (0)

(Beer and) Roving on the literary circuit

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Despatches from the Galle Literary Festival (SL Sunday Times).

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Ashok Ferrey, Blaft, Claire Tomalin, David Blacker, Diran Adebayo, Geoff Dyer, Geoffrey Bawa, hangovers, Ian Rankin, Jehan Mendis, Kaveri Lalchand, Louise Doughty, Malinda Seneviratne, McSweeney's, Michael Frayn, Michael Meyler, Mohammed Hanif, Monica Narula, Neluka Silva, Philip Roth, Pradeep Jeganathan, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Sarnath Banerjee, Shehan Karunatilaka, Shyam Selvadurai, Smriti Daniel, Spectator, Sunday Times (SL), Tokyo Cancelled, Ulrik Plesner, Wendy Cope, WG Sebald | Comments (0)

Geoff Dyer, Michael Frayn, and other people who were or were not there

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

GLF diaries – part the second.

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Ashok Ferrey, David Blacker, Diran Adebayo, Geoff Dyer, Geoffrey Bawa, Gillian Slovo, Lal Medawattegedara, literature, McSweeney's, Michael Frayn, Michelle de Kretser, Monica Narula, Pradeep Jeganathan, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Ulrik Plesner, Wendy Cope | Comments (0)

In which the author expresses his love for Wendy Cope

Friday, January 29, 2010

Diary from the Galle Literary Festival (preamble).

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Antoine de St Exupéry, Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper, Ashok Ferrey, Bevis Bawa, Claire Tomalin, Clive James, Erich Kastner, Geoffrey Bawa, Gillian Slovo, Ian Rankin, Kingsley Amis, literature, Louise Doughty, Michael Frayn, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Shyam Selvadurai, Wendy Cope, WG Sebald | Comments (0)