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Why, for example, does Celine Dion play on loop in Walmart? Because if you are listening to a sad song and you’re sad, you want to recover from your sadness and buy things to make yourself happy. My narrator is happily married to a behavioural psychologist: psychology tries to provide scientific and rational explanations for certain apparently inexplicable human behaviour. I keep noting down interesting psychology experiments that come to my attention. I was also thinking, “If I surround news with meditations on the news, perhaps I can slow it down for my readers.” That was the idea: to make the consumption of the everyday a more reflective and critical act.Īcademic psychology features prominently in your book.
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That way, a novel becomes an archive of the current moment, so the current moment doesn’t die on us with every succeeding headline. One thing that fiction can do is not let a new piece of news swallow yesterday’s news. This novel asks the question, “What is the role of fiction when we are surrounded by this fiction called fake news?” Certain world leaders are spouting lies everyday that are then amplified by their followers. What’s the role of slow news in all this? How can it help us gain perspective? And I thought of a man sitting down to a breakfast of idli and sambar, for instance, and saying, “They lynched another man yesterday.” It’s a good way to let the world into our pages of fiction. Phone and says, “Oh, Steve Bannon has resigned.” I liked that - not only the interruption of the wedding but also of the novel, of the fiction it weaves, by news from the real world. I was reading a novel calledĬrudo by Olivia Laing that starts with a wedding, where someone picks up the It’s exciting to push the boundaries of the novel. It is exciting to blur the line between fiction and non-fiction.įor this particular work, this meditation on post-truth, why did you decide to go with fiction rather than non-fiction? My narrators always seem to be reporting - from what they can see outside their window to the kind of life they lead. And so, I work hard while writing even what is fictional to give it a reportorial texture. The Guardian, “I like writing stuff that is only an inch from life, but all of the art is in that inch.” I started writing as a journalist, and the voice of the reporter, or the voice of reportage, feels real to me. How much of the book is fiction and how much non-fiction? Right now, you’re at a writer’s residency, just like your novel’s narrator. He reflects on the role of reporting and the relevance of fiction in this interview. It is a cogitation on the present moment, with the narrator, an author called Satya, inspired to write a novel “based on an untrue story.”Īuthor and journalist Amitava Kumar has been analysing the state of the world in all his works, most trenchantly in the award-winningĪ Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb: A Writer’s Report on the Global War on Terror.
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Our favourite man from the bureau gives us an update and his musical hot pick of the weekĪn ever changing roster of DJs and Producers given free reign for 30 minutes on your radio.Fake news, post-truth, alternative news, the infodemic and, above all, the Orwellian hand of the state in shaping narratives and, thus, our lived realities - Amitava Kumar’s new novel,Ī Time Outside This Time, has it all. Our weekly delve into science exploration Thursdays at 6.30: Science with Commander Kat WA musicians are in to tackle a fellow local artists work, sponsored by Otherside Brewing Sharing our latest podcast picks with Danae Gibsonīibliophile Danielle Raffaele gives us her reading recommendations
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