New Zoo Reviews

A heartly jell-o to all in Upper Nonsensabad (and even those in Outer Nonsensisthan, even though they have stopped returning my calls). As I promised, I would let you know about the most recent reviews.

The IRSCL has put out TWO reviews, the first of which is available online: HERE. If any of the mellifluous (and melinquent) language in this one sounds familiar, then you have obviously read my introduction!

The ever-bedecktacled Dr. Joseph Thomas Jr. wrote a lovely review that appears in the IRSCL journal. Wanted dead or alive!

Lastly, Dr. Kevin "Bring me a Spigot" Shortsleeve wrote a lovely piece of pumice for the Children's Literature Association Quarterly. This is available through Project Muse (which you need to subscribe to or get through your library). Get to the article through this link, or in the ChLA Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2008.

Work for the Anthology of World Nonsense is ramping up... more soon!

Blogger review USA

The US blogostemic blogiferator has turned its eyes to the Book, and Sepia Mutiny (yes) has given us a lovely review. Good to see that the book is actually on some shelves over here in the US, too. Check it out here.

Also, we doff our hats, spats, and polyunsaturated fats to Language Hat, who also gave us a splurb, referring to the above blog. Click here.

And here.

In other news, a few more reviews should be appearing in the near future... And, as the doctor said to the botfly-infested patient, I'll let you know when they emerge.

Winnipeg Wunnerful Wumplings

Ahh, Winnipeg in the spring! Last March, I visited the University of Winnipeg as an Overt Agent of Indian Nonsense. Through the kindness of the English department, and the Center for Research in Young People's Texts and Culture, meaning the munificent Mavis Reimer and cartesian Kevin Shortsleeve, I was able to lecture on Indian nonsense to the general community and visit Professor Shortsleeve's class devoted to nonsense. He beat me to the all-nonsense class, alas! Thanks to everyone involved--A foll-jolly time was had by all, and Indian nonsense continues to spread across the globe in a pandimensional pandemic of pandemonium.


Brief info on the lecture...

The USA Launch and more reviews

The USA launch of The Tenth Rasa achieved dizzying heights of Hogsbreathean Hopulence , with a crowd that included not only a few nonsense newbies but also some of the Boston area Indians. I was hoping Sarita Padki might make it, but I never heard back from the Padki camp. Hope all is well! During the proceedings, "The Bathing Hymn" intoned itself once again across the reverberating chambers of the Harvard COOP, and all was as it should be! Thanks to the Friends of Nonsense in attendance (established and incorporated unwittingly, on This Day, February Thirteenth, Two Thousand Eight, of all in attendance and even some in anelevendance).




Other news on the Indian nonsense front: two more reviews are due out soon. One from the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and one from the International Research Society for Children's Literature. Stay tuned...

The Official Official Launch in the USA:13 February, 2008, Harvard COOP

And from the Aristophalian Ashes, nonsense shall rise again! REPENT! THE USA LAUNCH is NIGH!

Like the phoenix from the ashes, like the peanuts from Natchez; like paneer from the curd, like Subir the Goatherd (whose fear of paneer is absurd), The Tenth Rasa rises again! The official (really, official, this time) launch of The Tenth Rasa in the USA will take place in the new year!

Wednesday, 13 February, 2008
7:00pm
The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense, edited by Michael Heyman, with Sumanyu Satpathy and Anushka Ravishankar (Penguin Global, 2008)
The Harvard COOP
1400 Massachusetts Ave at Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA

Click HERE for the link to the Harvard Coop schedule.

Rantings, ravings, chantings, shavings, signings, pinings, and tea.

Nonsense rumblings from blogosphere

I wanted to point you to some recent Indian nonsense rumblings and discussions on the blogosaxoscoposphere. The link takes you to the beginning of a discussion... be sure to click on the further links from there for the different contributions.

Click here to be transported...

Here's another, from Nandan Newlander:Click Here

The Tenth Rasa--Coming to a country near you!

Hello, dear Nonsensophites! This is just a note to note that The Tenth Rasa has been picked up by Penguin Global. While I have little conception of the machinations within the giant machine that is Penguin, and while nobody has bothered to let me know what, exactly, this shift means, I still am certain that Penguin Global means a much larger distribution around the world. Unfortunately, the book will not be available (outside of India and the Indian distributors) until early January 2008--but then The Tenth Rasa will begin its assured domination of the world! Mmuah ha haa! Stay tuned, pre-order if you dare, and dig the scene. Promotion shall follow...