...in spite of a feminist loon on the jury—founder of the feminist publishing house Virago—who says: "I don’t rate him as a writer at all." She also says, according to the NYT, that Roth "goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every book" and that "It’s as though he’s sitting on your face and you can’t breathe."

I would LOVE to be at a party with this woman and have it out with her.

Another judge on the panel wryly says, "I am very regretful that she would go public in this way because I think it’s disrespectful to the winner...Frankly, this all sounds to me like the plot of a Philip Roth novel."

UPDATE: The New Yorker calls the drama "ridiculous," the Telegraph says "this is a rare example of an international award going to a writer who fully deserves it."