Implication of this year's Nobel?

[Heikki R]

Yep, I managed to read Gurnah's introduction to the Cambridge Companion at
Google Books. He doesn't mention the period in the 1970s when Rushdie was
greatly influenced by Pynchon.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 3:25 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since he wrote for and edited the Cambridge Companion
> to Salman Rushdie, Rushdie will probably never win the Nobel.
> He had dilettante-guessing odds whereas Gurnah never even had those.
>
> But Rushdie coasted later in his career, all intensity spent,  it seems to
> me. I saw
> him phone in a book talk at a B & N Union Square in the oughts. I stayed
> for it all,
> including some of the book signing, where his disregard for fans was
> manifested; all speed and efficiency-- and then, after going down the four
> escalators,
> ran into him and Padma Lakshmi--new wife in 2004---on the sidewalk.  They
> had surely
> gone via freight elevator to our appointment in samarra NYC.  No one
> recognized them but
> me and I said nothing. He was smiling like Happiness.
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