Presque vu XXXII

25th November 2007 with 0 Comments

A publisher’s reader examines her profession in The Guardian.
The reader’s report struggles to swim against this current but also has to take it into account. It’s a bit like being an admissions officer at the world’s most selective institution: even the Nobel prize for literature is no guarantee you’ll get in.
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Mr Eugenides and a whole [...]

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