Thursday, July 21, 2011

A Free-to-Misread Man

I don't know what is more hilarious: that Palash Krishna Mehrotra read an entire book under the impression that it was fiction and reviewed it as such or that the books editor at the HT printed it without question.

Oh. Here's what I'm talking about.

Excerpts from Aman Sethi's book can be found here and here.

6 comments:

Rahul Siddharthan said...

Genius. And he seems to have done the same thing back in May (saying "a new forthcoming novel by Aman Sethi promises to give us the inner life of an itinerant labourer.")

Space Bar said...

Ha! Thanks for that link! that article is just...

Anonymous said...

Who is this Palash chap?

km said...

Fiction is non-fiction, non-fiction is fiction. It's all so PoMo.

JP said...

It's a joke, right?

Anindita said...

Omg, that's crazy.