30 September 2010

Ahhh, motherland!

Swedish author Tomas Transtromer is the favorite to win this year's Nobel Prize in Literature according to the kind of British betting site that always places odds on this type of thing. Then again, they picked an Israeli author last year, but German Herta Muller ended up snatching it away. So there's hope for Haruki Murakami (11-to-1 odds, against Transtromer's 5-to-1).

It looks as though A.S. Byatt, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Thomas Pynchon and Margaret Atwood are all running about evenly, and if that isn't a WWE script begging to be written...

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