i love fish curry
yes i do. just had it for lunch. damn, it's good.
anyway, my interviews went well for the most part yesterday. the magazine one was hard; she asked a lot of tricky questions. like how important is editorial integrity to you? would you be willing to sacrifice it for the sake of advertisers? ofcourse, my answer was 'no', but my mouth gave a more complicated answer that the interviewer seemed quite satisfied with. apparently the magazine market is really saturated here cos the population is so small, and everything, i mean everything, is driven by advertising $$$. not that it's much different anywhere else, but at least there are more alternatives. interviewer #2 also told me what salary to ask for when i do the second interview with her boss later this week, so i think she might have liked me.
unfortunately there was no baby time this weekend cos the relatives decided to come yesterday instead. might go see them tonight.
i just finished reading the Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, which i've been meaning to read for a long time. she totally deserved the Pulitzer; the writing is immensely beautiful. she writes really well about middle class Bengali diasporic communities. no clever turnings of phrases like Rushdie or hard-hitting social commentary like Marquez, but definitely worth a read.
meanwhile i am still slogging through UTA 2 (that's Upping the Anti, a really cool new journal that everybody should read). actually Lahiri was a way to procrastinate on reading UTA. i mean, there are so many people saying so many intelligent things in it that sometimes it just makes me feel stupid and wonder why i'm being asked to contribute to it at all. like the himani banerjee interview was really really engaging, but i think half the things she said flew over my head cos i haven't done the theoretical reading. i know, i should just fucking do the theoretical readings. or i could just go watch 'memoirs of a geisha'.
talking about movies, i am totally psyched cos Brokeback Mountain is opening in Singapore on Feb16. i am very pleasantly surprised. Singapore's not exactly well-known for its tolerance of homosexuality. maybe things are changing.
i just found the button that enables me to add links and am having fun with it in this post.
anyway, my interviews went well for the most part yesterday. the magazine one was hard; she asked a lot of tricky questions. like how important is editorial integrity to you? would you be willing to sacrifice it for the sake of advertisers? ofcourse, my answer was 'no', but my mouth gave a more complicated answer that the interviewer seemed quite satisfied with. apparently the magazine market is really saturated here cos the population is so small, and everything, i mean everything, is driven by advertising $$$. not that it's much different anywhere else, but at least there are more alternatives. interviewer #2 also told me what salary to ask for when i do the second interview with her boss later this week, so i think she might have liked me.
unfortunately there was no baby time this weekend cos the relatives decided to come yesterday instead. might go see them tonight.
i just finished reading the Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, which i've been meaning to read for a long time. she totally deserved the Pulitzer; the writing is immensely beautiful. she writes really well about middle class Bengali diasporic communities. no clever turnings of phrases like Rushdie or hard-hitting social commentary like Marquez, but definitely worth a read.
meanwhile i am still slogging through UTA 2 (that's Upping the Anti, a really cool new journal that everybody should read). actually Lahiri was a way to procrastinate on reading UTA. i mean, there are so many people saying so many intelligent things in it that sometimes it just makes me feel stupid and wonder why i'm being asked to contribute to it at all. like the himani banerjee interview was really really engaging, but i think half the things she said flew over my head cos i haven't done the theoretical reading. i know, i should just fucking do the theoretical readings. or i could just go watch 'memoirs of a geisha'.
talking about movies, i am totally psyched cos Brokeback Mountain is opening in Singapore on Feb16. i am very pleasantly surprised. Singapore's not exactly well-known for its tolerance of homosexuality. maybe things are changing.
i just found the button that enables me to add links and am having fun with it in this post.
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Hey, slogging through the newest issue, eh? heh heh. So we are trying to bring in the advisory board more into the journal and since you are far away, I am hoping you can participate over email. Just wondering if you could give your thoughts - both negative and positive - about the new journal: content, appearance, etc.
jot a few thoughts as to how you would like to participate in the next issue AND any story ideas or content you would like to work on or would like US to work on for the next issue.
Hope that's not too much - and I'll talk to you soon! I'm glad to hear about your job interviews. You are amazing, but it is rare for capitalism to reward radicals with good jobs.
hey, well actually i started reading the roundtables section last night, and that is easier to read and much more concrete. i like that the journal has a mix of stuff, actually. anyway, i will write my thoughts and send them soon.
take good care of yourself.
i'm going to second the recommendation for everyone to go out and either beg, purchase or borrow Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Interpreter of Maladies."
For someone so young, Ms Lahiri has a very mature and wise understanding of the relationships between people, be it husband-wife, parent-child, strangers, etc - which she portrays very adeptly in her stories - showing the humanity common in all of us which transcends age, race, roles... It is also in my opinion, written in a simple, clear and unpretentious language that is simulataneously lyrical and poetic even. My favourite story in the book is probably the last one about the immigrant and the old white lady. Simply beautiful.
Can't wait to get my hands on "The Namesake."
hey casey!
i heard 'the namesake' is nowhere near as good as her first. must be a difficult thing for writers to follow up a highly acclaimed book with another one that meets its standards.
by the way, 'brokeback mountain' passed the film censorship board here without them taking the scissors to any part of it at all. it's got an R rating, but folks here will be able to see it in full come Feb16.
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