Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
South Sydney has survived a chaotic last 20 minutes featuring arguably the try of the year, some controversial sin-binnings and plenty of other talking points to secure a finals berth with a 20-10 win over North Queensland.
A 14-6 lead looked relatively secure during a tense second half, but an incredible try from Kyle Feldt set the platform for a nerve-wracking finish, only settled in the dying seconds as Tom Burgess crashed over with the opposition reduced to 11 after two sin-bins.
Feldt has scored a few rippers in his time, but few have been more impressive than this.
South Sydney Rabbitohs seal finals spot with win over North Queensland Cowboys
And Other Stories Q & A
At the Literary Hub Corinne Segal has the latest in their series, Interview with an Indie Press: And Other Stories, speaking with founder Stefan Tobler and senior editor Tara Tobler.
See also the And Other Stories site -- lots of great books, quite a few of which are under review at the complete review.
At The Observer Alex Preston offers some insight into Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O'Farrell to Cormac McCarthy
Not sure how many of these I'll get to, but I am curious about a few of them.
Sharon Dodua Otoo Q & A
In The Oxonian Review Ella Labeau has An Interview with Sharon Dodua Otoo -- probably best-known for having won the 2016 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (though she wasn't the first winner who had begun writing in a different language (in her case, English)).
Her Ada's Room is due out in English translation next spring; see, for example, the Riverhead publicity page.
Anuradha Roy in conversation with Pankaj Mishra
At The Paris Review's The Daily weblog Pankaj Mishra has Mountains Hidden by Clouds: A Conversation with Anuradha Roy.
As Mishra notes, Roy set up: "Permanent Black, now India's premier intellectual publisher, with her husband, Rukun Advani"; see their website.
Roy says:
In this situation, the kind of books we publish at Permanent Black and the kind of books I write seem to me like faint shouts in an aggressive cacophony that drowns out reasoned debate and dissent. We are completely marginal to the mainstream discourse, which is clamorous, angry, and often abusive. In Germany, a hundred years ago, this was the initial stage of a fascist process. India is far more diverse, populous, and difficult to control centrally, so there is some hope.
One keeps one's fingers crossed .....
David Davidar Q & A
David Davidar has a new anthology coming out, A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country's Finest New Writers, and at Scroll.in Sayari Debnath has a Q & A with him, Publisher David Davidar on why young writers make him hopeful about Indian fiction in English.
He also addresses translation:
I’m delighted by the burgeoning interest in translations by readers, publishers, and the executors of literary prizes, but it’s nowhere near enough. We need generous funding by corporates with cultural leanings to support Indian literature created in languages other than English as also translation projects that will make work in these languages available to readers in English and languages other than those in which the work was originally created.
I'm not so sure about hoping for/relying on "big industry" for financial support, however .....
