The spectacle of books

Notes from the Jaipur Literature Festival โ™ฆ “This is literature as spectacle” โ€” the phrase was a common refrain at the recently concluded DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. I heard it uttered, worriedly, by publishers, sceptical that all the song and dance would translate into sales. I heard it from journalists, expounding between complaints of the …

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