Tuesday, April 23, 2002

I love John Irving. A very cool article from Reuters:

"People have been saying for years that the novel is dead: bullshit!" the silver-haired author of 10 novels including 1978's "The World According to Garp," "The Cider House Rules" in 1985 and "The Hotel New Hampshire" in 1981 said on a recent visit to the Netherlands.
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Irving has a string of best-sellers and a large collection of literary awards, but says he has no expectation of taking home a Nobel Prize. His screenplay Oscar was "much more my cup of tea," he said. "I'd rather take my chances with 400 writers and 6,000 film makers than with 18 Swedes, among whom there aren't many writers."

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