Implication of this year's Nobel?

[Johnny Marr]

Rushdie was probably a can of worms that the Committee didn’t want to open,
and as Mark says he hasn’t produced anything of serious literary merit for
30 years (although that wasn’t a problem for the likes of Grass)

On Thursday, October 7, 2021, Heikki R <situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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