[lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy

[Dissenting Wren]

Yes, we seem to be seizing on the tone that FT always uses in their "Lunch 
with..." interviews.  I fear that we (and I most emphatically include myself) 
may envy Arundhati Roy a bit.  A £500,000 advance for her first novel, which 
goes on to win the Booker Prize, beauty, celebrity, what appears from the 
outside to be a charmed life...and all she seems to do now is write crappy 
political essays that are more or less on "our side" but draw more on 
sentimentality than critical analysis.  We could do that job so much better - 
but look who is being brought mangoes by the household help in her tasteful 
apartment while chatting with the nice reporter from FT.  The bitch!  Makes us 
want to go back and read Tom Wolfe's "Radical Chic," doesn't it?

But seriously...however envious we are of Arundhati Roy, or however little 
regard we have for her political writing, do we really want to be in the company 
of that creepy little popinjay?

----- Original Message ----
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Sun, June 5, 2011 9:16:00 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy

When Marianne Moore edited the Dial, her policy was to publish long 
reviews of good books, short reviews of fair books, and no review of bad 
books. You don't like her? Why are you posting on her then?  Are you 
indicatiang a literary response, a jpolitical response, or merely 
indicating that you would not care for her to move into the house next door?

(I have never read her and know almost nothing about her; I have no dog 
in this race.)

Carrol

On 6/4/2011 11:26 PM, // ravi wrote:
> I really, badly, want to like Arundhati Roy. But I cannot bring myself to it:
>
>    
>> We are far from the forest now, sitting face to face, curled up on the two 
>>corners of a sofa in Roy's living room-cum-work space in one of New Delhi's most 
>>affluent neighbourhoods. One wall is lined with books, and a large flat-screen 
>>TV. Elsewhere, the walls are adorned with a portrait of Howard Zinn, the late US 
>>historian; a poster that says "Stop Dams"; and a large photograph of a Maoist 
>>fighter, his weapon next to him.
>>
>> A bowl of sliced mangos is brought out by the household help, and Roy invites 
>>me to share it with her. "Let's eat mangos," she says, sweetly. "There is 
>>nothing like mangoes. I once thought I would retire and eat mangoes in the 
>>moonlight and generally have a good time. Help yourself.”
>>      
>
> Seriously?
>
> http://l.ravi.be/jCf1mF
>
>     —ravi
>
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