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Literary Review
Summertime (and the living's not easy)
ANURADHA ROY
THE sky is no longer darkened with invitation cards exhorting you to do your duty and hear author read from new book. The sheen of glamour releases is scorched by summer, which makes people bad-tempered and tight-fisted. Publishers of general books bunch their new books through the mellow winter months when people are willing to spend. Even so, this winter and spring people did not dip into their pockets much. Most publishers mourned slower than usual business, attributing it to the worldwide recession.
The past couple of months have been normally frenetic for the textbook tycoons, small and big, but even they have collapsed exhausted on their laurels, jobs done. Bookshop windows display the same ware they did some weeks ago and the gush of new titles, good, bad and worse, coming into The Hindu's offices has become a weak trickle. Library grants are exhausted. Books' dog days have begun.
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