The Olive Reader

The art really is in isolating yourself and letting as few things into your head as possible. To only admit those things into your head that come from a direction where no one else ever looks. That is the difficult thing.

W.G. Sebald said that

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October 17, 2007

The Man Booker Prize

The NY Times reports:
LONDON, Oct. 16 — The Irish author Anne Enright won the Man Booker prize on Tuesday night for The Gathering, a novel in which a woman’s journey home with the body of her dead brother leads her to unearth and confront three generations’ worth of hidden family secrets….