At the end of each year, your humble columnist surveys the preceding 12 months and bestows awards honoring ignorance, sloth, stupidity or insanity by certain Virginia newsmakers. We re now accepting
ISSUE DATE: May 24, 2021
UPDATED: May 14, 2021 18:02 IST
Novelist V. Annamalai a.k.a. Imayam
The novelist V. Annamalai (Imayam) wears his Dravidian heritage with pride, but he has also always rebelled against the idea of a Dravidian or Dalit literature. “When you write, it’s literature, but when I write, it’s Dalit literature?” he has famously demanded.
Sellatha Panam, the novel for which he won the 2020 Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil, is about love that turned to hate, and the woman dying in a burns ward because of it. His unflinching novella about honour killing, Pethavan (available in English as The Begetter), was based on the particular case of a woman, or, if you like, on the many cases that occur daily in India whenever two people marry across caste divisions.
Thank FOC It s Friday – Planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off at Diamond Comic Distributors. And now Lunar Distribution as well. Who knows what Penguin Random House will bring? Here s this week s comics product coming through that may adjusting as demand slips and slides with the emerging economic bubble. Or somesuch.
Can t Spell Frank Cho Without FOC – Thank FOC It s Friday, April 9th
Traditionally FOC is the date when retailers have a last chance to amend their advance orders for comic books without penalty. A final opportunity for publishers to promote books while orders can still be added. A time for credits to be amends, new covers to be revealed and a final push given. This is an attempt to sift through them all and find the most relevant items.