booker
The Booker is supposed to be announced today, but no word yet on the winner. Still, the BBC and others try to build up suspense.
Update: The award went to DBC Pierre.
The Booker is supposed to be announced today, but no word yet on the winner. Still, the BBC and others try to build up suspense.
Update: The award went to DBC Pierre.
Another article on Indonesian sastra wangi/chick lit and it sounds like the writers there are getting far more respect than they do here.
John Carey, this year’s Booker judge, writes about changes in literary tastes he’s perceived over the last twenty years.
The most prolific growth in the past 20 years, and one that spans all these different forms and fashions, is the Moral Indignation Novel (MIN). It has been nourished by feminism and post-colonialism, but spreads far beyond the boundaries of these powerful movements. Its characteristic is to dwell on past atrocities and injustices. The iniquities of the slave trade, or the extermination of native peoples are the kind of subject that it relishes.
With the exception of the God of Small Things, he finds that the Booker hasn’t “succumbed” to the MIN.
The Guardian has a wrap-up of the major deals at the Frankfurt Book Fair, including the Woody Allen memoir. Should sell well in France. In other Frankfurt news, the Iraqi representatives at the fair talk about the difficulty of preserving manuscripts, selling books, etc.
Someone thinks Moorishgirl belongs to a “Cool Lit Club,” which he proceeds to bitch about, but he hasn’t bothered to provide a live link. Now how on earth am I supposed to get hits from the truly cool crowd he represents?
Link via Bookslut.
is going to made into a movie, and it sounds like Shyamalan might direct it.