Orange Prize, weirdness and more
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins 2007 Orange Prize for her book "Half of a Yellow Sun" while Karen Connelly gets the New Writer award for The Lizard Cage.
Antoine saw me driving around in that car, with my bad keyboard-player from the Cure hair and, 20 years later, give or take, rePsih8u_2membered it and put it in his book. Now that, my friends, is fucking weird.The weirdness continues.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez at last journeys home, while Iain Banks is interviewed on topics ranging from politics to SF (of course!).
"I wouldn't move to the United States now any more than I'd have moved to Germany in the mid-30s." Surely he can't be looking forward to explaining that quote to readers in Des Moines? "Let's just say that the character who says that, who is more articulate than I will ever be, doesn't have the same views as me. But no, I'm not."
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