Amos Oz sets tone better than God. (At least, if God were to ever choose to focus on that while writing his next burning bush tractatus... Come to think it, God seems to have the tone thing down.)
If this October is like last October, Philip Roth won't be sending his tux out to the cleaner and I won't be updating this blog post: "No Way, No How, Nobel." http://flapcopy.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-…
I was lucky enough to meet the great man himself at the now defunct Cafe Gray on Columbus Circle. Asked about the rancor aimed toward his excellent 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth said with a rueful half-smile, "The women didn't like it." I suspect this, along with the absurd, timeworn "self-hating Jew" accusations he's long endured, will once again prevent him from claiming his rightful prize in Stockholm this year. Well in keeping with the Swedes' other well-known historical blunders, like overlooking Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov.
@5-i totally agree. auster is pretty underrated in the states. i think europe appreciates him a lot more than we do.
Any betting line that puts Maya Angelou and William Gass at the same level deserves to be arbitraged.
I was lucky enough to meet the great man himself at the now defunct Cafe Gray on Columbus Circle. Asked about the rancor aimed toward his excellent 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth said with a rueful half-smile, "The women didn't like it." I suspect this, along with the absurd, timeworn "self-hating Jew" accusations he's long endured, will once again prevent him from claiming his rightful prize in Stockholm this year. Well in keeping with the Swedes' other well-known historical blunders, like overlooking Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov.