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“I don’t know how they’ll make a film out of it but if a catalogue can be a novel then anything’s possible,” says Alexandra Pringle editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury.

Books may take many strange forms but “everybody doesn’t have a book in them,” Pringle says. Pringle,who discovered authors like Elizabeth Gilbert and Donna Tartt is currently enjoying what she describes as a bright summer day in Delhi before heading out to the Jaipur Literature Festival that begins today.

“Like musicians,authors need to go out of their workshops occasionally and meet other people,” she says. Pringle will also be publishing Indian poet Tishani Doshi’s first novel. “A good book is akin to falling in love and has a voice one can respond to,” she says.

Pringle began her publishing career as a literary agent with Virago publishing house but left it for Bloomsbury in 1999. And no,unlike some other prominent publishers,she has no intention of writing a book. “No,I love bringing them out but if I had a story to tell it would be out by now,” she smiles.

Pringle’s ‘catalogue book’ will have two tests. First,what readers make of it. Second,what Brad Pitt makes out of it. — Anushree Majumdar

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