Serious Popular Fiction by Anuradha Marwah For years in the West people made a distinction between high and low art: serious literary fiction and popular novels. Serious used to be worthy or ‘great’ literature, usually realistic and message driven, prescribed to the impressionable for the elevation of their souls; whereas the popular was allied with [...]

What was the writer thinking?

If you are like us, once you zero in on an author you really like, you probably find that you have to read everything the person ever wrote. You would want to know all that goes on inside the author’s head. Do they have common place insecurities about their work like the rest of us, [...]