Delighted to see David Mitchell back in the Booker Prize hunt

[rich]

shit, wuz just gonna say the same thing
not that we don't have our fair share of pedestrian, timid, navel gazer
wankers here in the usa

rich


On 8/15/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Man, looking at the shortlist of the candidates for Man Booker I keep
> asking
> myself, what the hell has happened to British literature? Will evere a
> writer of Anthony Burgess calibre appear? For the time being the British
> literary landscape looks like a Dali wasteland with two grotesque figures
> looming on the horizon: David Mitchell and Lawrence Norfolk, the best that
> they have.
>
>
> >From: Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com>
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Delighted to see David Mitchell back in the Booker Prize hunt
> >Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:19:12 -0400
> >
> >the following extracted from http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
> >
> >The judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction today (Monday
> >14th August) announces the longlist of books for this year.
> >
> >The longlist of 19 books was chosen from 112 entries; 95 were submitted
> >for the prize and 17 were called in by the panel of judges.
> >
> >Chair of judges, Hermione Lee, comments:
> >
> >"Judging the Man Booker Prize puts you through almost as many emotions as
> >there are in the novels. We've tried to be careful and critical judges as
> >well as being passionately involved. We have many regrets about some of
> >the novels we've left off, and we could easily have had a longlist of
> >about 30 books, but we're delighted with the variety, the originality,
> >the drama and craft, the human interest and the strong voices in this
> >longlist. It's a list in which famous established novelists rub shoulders
> >with little known newcomers. We hope that people will leap at it for
> >their late summer reading and make up their own shortlist."
> >
> >The judging panel for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: Hermione
> >Lee (Chair); Simon Armitage, poet and novelist; Candia McWilliam, award
> >winning novelist; critic Anthony Quinn and actor Fiona Shaw.
> >The 2006 shortlist will be announced on Thursday 14th September at a
> >press conference at Man Group's London office. The winner will be
> >announced on Tuesday 10th October at an awards ceremony at Guildhall,
> >London.
> >
> >The longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 is as follows;
> >
> >Carey, Peter Theft: A Love Story (Faber & Faber)
> >Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)
> >Edric, Robert Gathering the Water (Doubleday)
> >Gordimer, Nadine Get a Life (Bloomsbury)
> >Grenville, Kate The Secret River (Canongate)
> >Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down (Canongate)
> >Jacobson, Howard Kalooki Nights (Jonathan Cape)
> >Lasdun, James Seven Lies (Jonathan Cape)
> >Lawson, Mary The Other Side of the Bridge (Chatto & Windus)
> >McGregor, Jon So Many Ways to Begin (Bloomsbury)
> >Matar, Hisham In the Country of Men (Viking)
> >Messud, Claire The Emperor's Children (Picador)
> >Mitchell, David Black Swan Green (Sceptre)
> >Murr, Naeem The Perfect Man (William Heinemann)
> >O'Hagan, Andrew Be Near Me (Faber & Faber)
> >Robertson, James The Testament of Gideon Mack (Hamish Hamilton)
> >St Aubyn, Edward Mother's Milk (Picador)
> >Unsworth, Barry The Ruby in her Navel (Hamish Hamilton)
> >Waters, Sarah The Night Watch (Virago)
>
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