BS Murthy's Lit Linc Author Interview

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When you're working on a book and a new idea pops up, should you pursue it immediately (also known as 'UP syndrome') or finish your current project first? What do you think is the best course of action?

I had a slightly different experience in that after I completed my maiden novel, Benign Flame: Saga of Love, the idea of Crossing the Mirage – Passing through youth, also a love story cropped up in my mind. However, so as to avoid the possible carry over effect on my muse, I worked with Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life before I set out to cross the mirage.

What are some books or authors that you would recommend to our readers?

I urge readers to read the classics of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Zola, Gustav Flaubert, Marcel Proust and Robert Musil to name a few literary giants that is apart from 'yours literally'.

Would you like readers to have any specific takeaway from your book?

While my fiction had emanated from my conviction that for it to impact readers, it should be the soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil but not the hotchpotch of local and alien caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas, all my body of work was borne out of my passion for writing, matched only by my love for language.

Did you always want to be an author? If not, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Given that Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Zola, Gustav Flaubert et al are literary deities (I hadn’t read Marcel Proust and Robert Musil before I began to write), were, and are, my literary deities, and how dare I, their devotee, to envision myself in the sanctum sanctorum of the novel. But, how in my mid-forties, I happened to be a writer is My ‘Novel; Account of Human Possibility that is Googleable  https://share.google/77k2PoAcXHhoov6Yi. But, how in my mid-forties, I happened to be a writer is My ‘Novel; Account of Human Possibility that is Googleable  https://share.google/77k2PoAcXHhoov6Yi

How long did it take you to write this book?

But for my novella, Of No Avail – Web of Wedlock and the critique Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for Their Revocation), the rest ten, as if to synchronize themselves with nature, took nine months for their fruition.

What other hobbies do you have outside of writing?

So to say, I am a man of many hobbies, penchant for reading, pursuing politics, ear for music, passion for Bridge to name a few that tend to lend substance to my writing

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