Implication of this year's Nobel?

[Mark Kohut]

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My favorite thing about the Gurnah win is that he's a very funny writer
(subtly)

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 12:06 PM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

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