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www.irishtimes.com Ebenezer review: Johnny Depp still has the terrible English accent he’s been torturing for 30 years The star doesn’t exactly kill Ti West’s film, but you sense a much better movie longing to escape his awkward embrace I took the time to read the first few pages of John Harrison's novel, 'The End of Everything', in my local bookshop earlier today.View quoted post on X
I have no doubt he enjoyed writing it.
But his work is that of a writer who, when forced to choose between hard reality or its rejection as his source material, chose the latter.
Here, I call upon the sentiments of Bertolt Brecht: "All art forms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living."
If your work as a writer is not deployed in the service of the masses and their struggles, it falls into the category of self-indulgent crapola.
The Booker Prize is a function of class not creative writing. It exists to maintain existing class relations on a cultural level.
#BookerPrize2026
Mass psychosis where we all pretend that we never found Little Britain or Russell Brand's Radio 2 show funnyView quoted post on X
My take on the Booker Prize is a snobbish one: I don't think people like Professor Mary Beard and actors like Sarah Jessica Parker ( who was a judge in a previous year) has any business being judges on literary juries. Only poets,novelists, playwrights,short story writers &View quoted post on X
