Learned quirkiness …

… Reader’s writer - The Hindu. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Mining how literature continues to make sense of our world, The Possessed (nominated for several major book awards such as The Guardian first book award), defends monomania even as it champions serendipity. As it unfolds, Babel’s daughters prove themselves batty, Tolstoy scholars soil themselves, ice palaces of former empresses are recalled. A consistent and wonderfully clumsy dialogue emerges between present truths and past wisdoms. So, it was fitting that engaging with the author herself followed a similarly whimsical path.