Literary groundhog day
Ian Rankin says snobbishness prevents crime writers like himself winning literary prizes. Well, we’ve never heard that before have we? He also announces to an astonished world that he sells more than literary writers ’so they can be as snooty as they like’. Fine, but can we have our straw man back first?
And Dan Green wastes his breath on Grumpy Old Bookman who is the kind of reader who, as John Banville says, just wants to be lulled. The literary in literature is the confrontation with the everyday. Free of crime, free of prizes, free of royalties, just free, unbearably free. Though unfortunately not free of philistine dickheads.
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