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Big Nobel news: congratulations to Doris Lessing, whose unflinching and complex novels and stories about the relations between the races and sexes have finally earned her the nod from Stockholm. If you haven’t read “The Golden Notebook” or “The Cleft”, get to work!
Oh, and some guy with a PowerPoint presentation won some prize or other, too. Kudos to him as well.
Forenoon update:
Here’s the link to the excerpts from Dwight Garner’s 1997 Salon interview with Doris Lessing: ‘I Would Have Become an Alcoholic or Ended in the Loony Bin’
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I’ll be doing just that–reading “The Golden Notebook.” Her interviews are pretty fascinating, too. See Paper Cuts blog yesterday.
Thanks for the tip! I love Paper Cuts, but it’s on my Monday Google page so I missed the interview excerpts.
No one can accuse Lessing of being shy and retiring …