I'll Bet They Pick a Book Nobody Wants to Read

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I'll bet they pick a book nobody wants to read IN January 1982, Philip Larkin wrote to Kingsley Amis: "No, I don't read any of these new chaps.

I'd say they were no fucking good, just from what the reviews say. When will people realise that this is a dead era for writing, like 1500-1580?"

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I'll Bet They Pick a Book Nobody Wants to Read

Chris Smith MP, the chair of this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, was rather more boosterish when he announced the 22 books still in contention last month. "This has been a very rich year for fiction and we have a strong and varied longlist," he claimed. He could hardly have said that ...

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