A new article from the Guardian newspaper says that the judges for this year\’s Booker Prize are asking publishers to send them smaller, funnier books for consideration. I\’m interested particularly in the class distinctions they make:
In a radical departure from convention – \”the beginning of a new era\”, according to their chairwoman, Lisa Jardine – they vowed to cast their net wider to more plebeian literary forms, and even into the lower depths of genre and \”popular fiction\”.
Heaven forfend!
This is another tidbit I found in Publisher\’s Lunch. I like it more every time I read it.
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