Neel Mukherjee
Neel Mukherjee
alight atavistic dinner dishes failure meat moral party please view
In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.
good properly readers render taking
I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.
novels people rather sit theory
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.
ate grew meat rare
I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.
business defines given itself lives odd rest talk wealth work written
Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
work
Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.
cause seems
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
One writes what one can, or has to, write.
I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.
book call
I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.
allow
I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.