Something deeply wrong
Bookslut led me to read Michael Lind’s condemnation of the Man Booker prize winner Vernon Little God.
Whatever Lind says (and he is surely correct), one has to feel sorry for DBC Pierre for having his first novel receive such scrutiny. (Well, almost.) There are bigger fish to fry.
Lind says the jury, chaired by Professor John Carey, has “democratised literature by proving that a book doesn’t have to be any good to win a prize”. This novel, he says, “is so awful that its victory suggests there is something deeply wrong with British literary culture”.
Yes. It’s called Professor John Carey (that is, what he stands for).
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