Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
There's been a snit in the high-end literary biz as someone withdrew from some prize panel because it rewarded Philip "Portnoy" Roth. We haven't read his novels and don't intend to -- we've encountered enough excerpts from his opus maximus in "humor" anthologies -- but controversies like this are often tied up in extraneous considerations (and this one is, mostly feministic), which only further show awards are often about politics of one form or another when they're not about politicking, and that's why most deserve not to be taken seriously.
(Via the usual AHTSJournal)
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