mitchell writeup as booker favourite from Guardian

[P Taylor]

http://books.guardian.co.uk/manbooker2006/story/0,,1852819,00.html

--PT


On 8/18/06, P Taylor <neon.taylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> beyond his writing, that is:
>
> http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/festivalvulture/2006/08/18/the_art_of_self_exposure.html#more
>
> or maybe I'm the only one who doesn't think Greene is a minor writer...
>
> JB:  "There's a notion that we writers are interested in the world; that
> we like the peculiarities of people and collecting characters," he said.
> "That may be the case with second rate artists, but true artists are only
> interested in what's going on in their head."
>
> regardless of the verity of this, how pompous a statement could one ask
> for?
>
> Nauseating.
>
> --PT
>
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