Comments on eyefry: Joy in the morning

Landmark online seems to have the New York Review ...

2009-10-25T23:52:59.624+05:30

Landmark online seems to have the New York Review version, for some 800 odd bucks.

Indeed, Nina lives, hallelujah.

I (sort of) know the head of books at Landmark, an...

2009-10-25T21:44:26.420+05:30

I (sort of) know the head of books at Landmark, and he's the sort of guy who might actually want to stock that book there - wouldn't find it at Crossword. :)

and ooh, nina lives.

Nina: I just checked. As Andy said, there's a ...

2009-10-25T20:19:03.297+05:30

Nina: I just checked. As Andy said, there's a new reprint of Haterr by the New York Review of Books. Prior to that, the book hasn't been in print since the late 80s. That 2002 copy of yours from Landmark must've either popped out of a freak interdimensional wormhole or, more disconcertingly, it'd been languishing on that same shelf for a decade or more. Poor neglected Desani.

Andy: You're welcome :) Nina and Andy: Last I...

2009-10-25T20:07:30.047+05:30

Andy: You're welcome :)

Nina and Andy: Last I checked, it wasn't in print. If things've changed like you say, I couldn't be more thrilled!

Hatterr's not in print? Got mine from landmark...

2009-10-25T18:57:19.547+05:30

Hatterr's not in print? Got mine from landmark in '02 or thereabouts. Now to actually read past the first few chapters. Heh.

I see that Desani's book has been reprinted by...

2009-10-25T18:08:00.499+05:30

I see that Desani's book has been reprinted by New York Review of Books. Looks absolutely brilliant, thanks for the recommendation. Just what one needed after a lot of struggling with far less genial authorial souls.

Just saw the DNA e-paper. Sampath, the books edito...

2009-10-25T15:20:40.538+05:30

Just saw the DNA e-paper. Sampath, the books editor, has added Erma Bombeck to the recommendations in the final copy. Looks like he also noticed what you did, and fixed it, the clever chap :)

My dad owns a copy too, which he bought some decad...

2009-10-25T15:01:06.299+05:30

My dad owns a copy too, which he bought some decades back like your uncle. Mad trippy book, love it.

Shite, I just noticed the women writers deficit as well. Ah, whaddaya gonna do. Call it irony.

He does reference Veerappan, yeah. A lot of the short stories in the collection are take-offs from random news snippets he'd been reading, and our silverback guerilla happened

it isn't? (well, as your post and your comment...

2009-10-25T14:53:18.597+05:30

it isn't? (well, as your post and your comment attests to it, i won't question it) - my copy was sourced from an uncle's collection; he bought it 30 years ago.

i notice by the way, that while you lament about women humourists (curious - though warranted for being ignored - as a category too - americans, indians and women. heheh) being relegated, none of your

Isn't it? And what a book. It's a shame th...

2009-10-25T13:53:29.056+05:30

Isn't it? And what a book. It's a shame that it isn't in print anywhere. Bugger the Indian publishing industry, I say.

good to see Desani/H.Hatterr get some love.

2009-10-25T12:45:21.888+05:30

good to see Desani/H.Hatterr get some love.