Arundhati Roy, the author of The God of Small Things has announced that she will write her next book.  Ten years ago, her debut novel won the Booker prize (now the Man Booker Prize), and John Updike compared her career to that of Tiger Woods.  I was completely blown away by the beauty of her sentences and the scope of her work.  This, I must say, is very exciting news.  Ms. Roy has spent the time since publishing The God of Small Things engaging in social activism in her native India.  She delivered a compelling speech in 2004 in San Francisco entitled "Tide or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire"   in regards to the war on Iraq.  I remember reading an interview with Ms. Roy shortly after the publication of The God of Small Things in which she responded to the interviewer's question about when she would write her next book with something like, when the voices in my head are quiet.