'When faced with booksellers telling me they couldn't sell my book to boys because of the flowery cover, I confronted my publishers who said that given a choice, they'll always go for female readers, even if it means losing male.' Meg Rosoff commenting on Pink doesn't stink: Guardian blog
MUP's Louise Adler on literary prizes
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Can I share with you something I'm excited about? It's about me, but I think you'll be excited too, maybe.
Have a read of this: http://tinyurl.com/4hbgjt
hey lrb, of course - any time.
Cool!
what's the paper/book that they are referencing from you? I need to get my hands...
This is it here: from australian screen education issue 23.
hey, i just this minute started a book and I could be wrong but it made me think of you - i think you might like it - it's called All the Sad Young Literary Men and it's by Keith Gessen.
Further to this: I just received All the Sad Young Literary Men from Amazon but I have to finish Yiddish Policemen's Union first. I'll let you know when I get to it.
Dear Pulitzer-kind-of-guy, I know what you mean although I enjoyed last year's winner, The Gathering. Midnight's Children... having studied it now twice I still don't get what all the fuss is about. As for that Gessen book, it didn't live up to its early promise but there are some corker scenes. I still haven't read Yiddish Policeman's Union, to my horror - it stares at me from across the bed. I guess I'm saving it for a sweet holiday. Remember that time we were having a drink on Smithers, and you had just been reading Kavalier and Clay in the car and you were so madly excited by it? I wish I could read that book for the first time, again.
Oh I know what you mean. I was so lucky because I read that book and then I read The Corrections and then Grapes of Wrath and it was like heroin. I've been chasing the literary dragon ever since, trying to get that perfect hit. Trying to get completely lost in the lives of the characters and the language.
Rant was almost like that for me. Definitely the best book I read last year and the last thing I was actually excited about. Oh, and Michael Sweeney's Method, of course.
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