Roth, Booker, Judge, Sitting on Faces

[Mark Kohut]

Just imagine if a male judge had said it of a female writer???...
Erica Jong, say?




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From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 3:46:07 PM
Subject: Re: Roth, Booker, Judge, Sitting on Faces





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Author and publisher Carmen Callil has withdrawn from the judging panel of the 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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