Annals of Sexism in the Literary World, Pt 20 Million
This just in from Reuters:
Impac Dublin Literary Award Finalists Announced
Salman Rushdie of Britain, Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Safran Foer of the US, and J. M. Coetzee of South Africa made it to the shortlist of eight contenders yesterday for the $135,500 International Impac Dublin Literary Award, billed as the world’s richest prize for a single work of fiction. Other finalists are Per Petterson of Norway, Peter Hobbs and Julian Barnes of Britain and Sebastian Barry of Ireland.
Let me recap: the world's most valuable literary prize--more generous than the Nobel, the Pulitzer, or the Mann Booker Prize--will go to one of seven men, not a women in the lot and only one person of color.
Good thing, too. What would we spend the money on? Baubles? Midol? Tampons?
Impac Dublin Literary Award Finalists Announced
Salman Rushdie of Britain, Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Safran Foer of the US, and J. M. Coetzee of South Africa made it to the shortlist of eight contenders yesterday for the $135,500 International Impac Dublin Literary Award, billed as the world’s richest prize for a single work of fiction. Other finalists are Per Petterson of Norway, Peter Hobbs and Julian Barnes of Britain and Sebastian Barry of Ireland.
Let me recap: the world's most valuable literary prize--more generous than the Nobel, the Pulitzer, or the Mann Booker Prize--will go to one of seven men, not a women in the lot and only one person of color.
Good thing, too. What would we spend the money on? Baubles? Midol? Tampons?
posted by Wanda Ball at 7:58 PM
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Ah, the anals of sexism. Joke.
Blog some pictures of cows?
Look, we gave you the vote. What else do you want?
(Please don't kill me; I'm being a wee tad sarcastic.)
You're so right, CLT. I suck the world's collective dick in gratitude.
Technically, half the world's collective dick, but on behalf of men everywhere, thanks for knowing your place. (Again, I kid, I kid.)
Dude, what's with the apologetic parantheticals? Fuck readers who have a tin ear for irony. Saying awful things in print is our God-given right as bloggers!
Wait, are you being sarcastic?
(Sorry, I can't tell.)
No sarcasm intended. We (meaning Chicky, me, and my ten regular readers) know when you're being ironic. Trust us. As for the others: fuck'em.
As Martin Luther says, Sin boldly.
Signed,
The Devil
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