And incidentally, that is what West's Plenary speech was about. Since that thread there has not been a day that I haven't wondered, Why in the Fuck am I still on this list?
Carrol
On 6/5/2011 11:21 AM, Dissenting Wren wrote:
> 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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