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Rejection
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Tash Aw told me this story over
chapatis and chilli-chicken in Bangsar Baru last week (he was down for
some family matters). It is a famous story about Margaret Atwood meeting
a brain surgeon at a party (presumably a book signing party):
After some chit-chat, the surgeon said that he planned to take up writing
when he retired. 'Really?' Atwood is said to have replied. 'When I retire,
I plan on taking up brain surgery.'
We were chatting about writing and getting rejected in general, and
literary bitching in particular.
I have personally received quite a few irate emails
from rejected writers who submitted their stories to the Silverfish
New Writing series (though I must admit that this is only from very
very few - but they do leave a bad feeling).
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The Last Communist T-shirts
by Amir Muhammad
We cannot watch the movie, so let us at least wear the T-shirt.
They are available in sizes S, M, L and XL and are going for RM35.00
each. There are still a few more left, so get it before they are banned
too! You'll never know what they will ban next.
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IN
THE LITMAG this
month
Naguib
Mahfouz dies
 Naguib
Mahfouz, Egypt's most celebrated author and the only Arab to win the
Nobel literature prize, has died at the age of 94.
Mahfouz was taken to
intensive care on August 14 and remained in critical condition, suffering
from various kidney problems, pneumonia and other ailments related to
his age. He was almost completely deaf and blind at the time of his
death. Mahfouz died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday, 30th august 2006.
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 Buy
Silverfish New Writing on Amazon
Silverfish New Writing
1 is now available on Amazon.co.uk. GBP 86.99 (MYR 602.00) only, postage
extra: Used - Very Good Comments: Mailed from Los Angeles, USA. It takes
1-5 weeks for delivery.
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20 years of Soyinka's Nobel Prize
 In
1986, Professor Wole Soyinka became the first African writer to win
the Nobel Prize for Literature. Egypt’s Nagoib Mahfouz followed
suit in 1988. Two South Africans, Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee
won the prize in 1991 and 2003. READ
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 Norman
Mailer's new book.
The Random House website gives the title as The Castle
in the Forest, Category: Fiction, Format: eBook and that it will be
on sale in January 2007. Oh yes, the price: Price: US$17.95 This will
be the first book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author in 10 years.
No synopsis is available and it does not even say if a print version
will be released. READ
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Other stories
The Ten Best Children's Books
Book Review in India
Book Review in Australia
Chinese writing in English
Auction of character names
Bollywood and the Bard
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