Roth, Booker, Judge, Sitting on Faces

[Erik T. Burns]

I hope I'm not the only one for whom that turn of phrase provoked a Portnoy moment...



On 18/05/2011, at 20:09, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/18/judge-quits-philip-roth-booker
>  
> Author and publisher Carmen Callil has withdrawn from the judging panel of the Man Booker International prize over its decision to honour Philip Roth with the £60,000 award. Dismissing the Pulitzer prize-winning author, Callil said that "he goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book. It's as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe".
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