Scott Sherman
SCOTT SHERMAN is a contributing writer of the Nation and a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review.
In Conversation
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE NEW INDIA: SIDDHARTHA DEB with Scott Sherman
Finely written, carefully reported, and imaginatively conceived, Siddhartha Debs The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India (Faber and Faber, Inc.) is one of the outstanding nonfiction books of 2011.
The Bookseller of Chennai
By Scott ShermanThe tiniest bookshop in Chennai, Indias fourth-largest city, is located on the edge of the Taj Connemara Hotel, in the congested downtown. To get to the shop, you must first inquire at the hotels front desk, where a clerk tells you to exit the lobby and make a left.
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