Earlier this year Thoithoi O’Cottage started a new literary journal, rather ambitious in its goal to deliver an international panel of talented writers. I’m pleased to announce his effort here, however belatedly. One of the things I love about this growing collection of works by creatives from diverse backgrounds is the extraordinary pleasure of reading English in its many-colored manifestions: Indian; British, Asian, American. Clearly, however we may use our language, which has proven so versatile, we share a love of beauty, courage, and purity of spirit. Such delight. With this publishing effort, Thoithoi salutes the creative spirit in all of us.
Thoithoi is a writer and translator living in India. His personal blog is Lake Bard (http://lakebard.wordpress.com/). Please take some time to link through and enjoy the journal – Cottage Reader – and to visit Lake Bard. Jamie Dedes
The question whether the world needs another journal of art, culture, literature and philosophy, etc. added to what it already has more multitudinously than we can devote our whole life to the reading of does not hold us back from launching our long-dreamed-of journal, because the answer, of course, is an emphatic ‘YES’. All of us read the journals and magazines of our own trades, and many of us contribute to a few or several of them, but that’s clearly not all, because we know that the world has not ended—perhaps not even history—and our élan vital incessantly continues to drive us, forcing us to live creatively where we are, allowing life’s mostly-held-back vital property of growing/developing rhyzomatically in as yet unthinkable directions and proportions to commit itself to being and becoming. This does not necessarily mean that every act of living following every other act of living is new…
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