A massive hedge fund company stops sponsoring a book prize so it can spend the money on other projects. If we’d had a slow news day, you might understand why this became a story. Man is stopping its sponsorship of the Booker. Whoop-de-doop. The prize itself has been mired in literary controversy ever since the …
The biggest book news this week was that an Irish woman won the Man Booker prize and I can honestly say the story left me cold – not because I don’t care that a woman has won the accolade for the first time in quite a few years or that I don’t care that an …
The complete and utter excitement event of the year has been and gone with the Man Booker Prize. And even though it is British competition, another American has won it – again. With the change in rules a couple of years ago, eligibility was expanded to include those not born in the UK. Put another …
The Man Booker prize is heading our way with all the excitement and flurry of press coverage implied in the simple statement. As part of that buzz was this article in The Guardian which argued that prizes aren’t worth the prize money. More accurately, the argument put forward by Amit Chaudhuri is that a prize …
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