Big literary news item of the week is of course that Howard Jacobson got the Booker for The Finkler Question, a novel which had mixed reviews, and certainly wasn’t the bookie’s favourite to win. Lifetime achievement award, or overdue recognition of comic writing from the literary establishment? (I'll let you know when I've read it - still got last year's winner Wolf Hall on my bedside table, to be honest.)
Depressed, moi? Professional writers do not get depressed when our authorial colleagues are a. garnered with awards or b.given shed-loads of money. No. We apply the biro to the page, and press on.
