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Nth-rate Post
10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I think Lessing might turn out to be an inspiration to all authors. Besides her admirable disdain for the Nobel Prize and its process, apparently lately she has been writing “fourth-rate science fiction”. Does that mean third-rate or better SF will become deserving of wider acclaim? Perhaps not, as the quotation is from professional cultural […]
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Prizes and Gifts
10.11.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’ve not read anything by Doris Lessing that I recall, so I don’t have any opinion whether or not she might be worthy of the prize announced today. However I do have to wonder if any writer still alive really deserves the Nobel more than John Updike. I recently read The Collected Henry Bech and clever man […]
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Lookie thar
08.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Hey ho, Chochachos, Mrs The Fyd has a new blog, here. In other news, I am reading Peter Brown’s The Making of Late Antiquity and I wish I was that smart.

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