October 26, 2022

[The story of what happened before my novel “The Revised Kama Sutra” was published by Viking Penguin India. [from “The Killing of an Author””} One of the two editors who had been holding out (the other being Morgan Entrekin of Atlantic Monthly Press), and one who according to Harriet had almost offered and then changed…

July 23, 2020

March 30, 2020: One score and zero years ago, my father’s World War 2 prisoner-of-war memoir, Eaten by the Japanese,** had its official national launch at the India International Centre, New Delhi (along with the launch of the U.S. edition, which was the same paperback product, except for having U.S. ISBNs on the copyright page…

April 9, 2013

This essay, titled “The Slow Death of the American Author” and just published in The New York Times, is too important for anyone concerned about freedom of expression and diversity of opinion to miss. I am pleased to bring it to the attention of my readers: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/opinion/the-slow-death-of-the-american-author.html?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20130408&_r=0 I recently wrote, in my blogspot blog, about…