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In-fighting

Wednesday, 15th October 2008

Louise Doughty, one of this year's Man Booker speed-readers, thinks "male academics" should not be allowed near judging panels. Naturally, John Sutherland - emeritus prof -  is aggrieved:

DJ Taylor – a critic whom I admire – has chipped in to support Doughty, naming John Carey, with whom Taylor served on the a Booker panel, as a professor "not very au fait with the current state of writing". Which, of course, is double-distilled bollocks. Carey reviews every week, for the Sunday Times, and has done for decades. He knows as much about the current state of writing as he does about Milton's Latin poetry. I would like to think that Taylor is shooting wildly from the hip and that Doughty is not being entirely serious. Or that she was drunk (I can surely suggest that, if she feels free to label me a ponce?)

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