Posts Tagged ‘Nobel Prize for Literature’
is the nobel committee clueless?
October 08, 2008
The Nobel frenzy is in full swing. Adam Kirsch, over at Slate, believes that the Nobel Committee has no clue about American literature: As long as America could still be regarded as Europe’s backwater—as long as a poet like T.S. Eliot had to leave America for England in order to become famous enough to win [...]
2008 | books, culture, writing | Tags: Adam Kirsch, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize for Literature, Roth, SlateComments (0)
a hunger for books
January 10, 2008
Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, in case you missed it. (via Father Inch)
