Carpe Librum
Anam Fatima
the small print
-
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird
I like a good read; something that stirs me inside and leaves me, in equal parts, exhausted and enlightened. I wish I could say the same thing about my writing! However much I’ve tried, a cut-and-dried method to good writing has eluded me. It looks like there is none! Ergo, I go through writing advice…
-
RAY BRADBURY’S ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING
I have learned, on my journeys, that if I let a day go by without writing, I grow uneasy. Two days and I am in tremor. Three and I suspect lunacy. Four and I might as well be a hog, suffering the flux in a wallow. An hour’s writing is tonic. I’m on my feet,…
-
Arabian Nights, Bygone Days
I treasure memories; and one among the earliest I have is that of my father with a newspaper. He started each day with a cup of tea in one hand and a newspaper in the other, and he has kept up with this habit over the years. He worked in a bank all his life…
-
Conversation: The Impossible Question By J Krishnamurti
Reading evokes a myriad of emotions in me; and sometimes it is a deeply intellectual exercise. But it rarely happens that a book proves to be a combination of the two. The Impossible Question by J Krishnamurti is one such rarity. I moved to Bangalore in July 2020, and it turned out to be a…
BROWSE FOR CONTENT
NEW CONTENT
Categories
About Anam
Anam Fatima is an author, teacher, publisher and creative entrepreneur, all rolled into one. She runs a creative content & design studio, hybrid media production and publishing house called 1InchMargin in Bangalore.