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1. Writer, The Nation thenation.com/authors/jeet-h… 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Drawn by Joe Ollmann *e4dccb3d
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On the contrary: Classicists like Beard, just by dint of acquiring very hardwon languages, are as sensitive -- and often more sensitive -- to literature than your run of the mill bookish person.
Beckett Johnson @JohnsonBec32985 2d
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 &
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