Re: JCO: Nobel prize

Randy is right---every year we grieve or become irritated over JCO not being honored with the Nobel prize.  Having in the past tried to keep an open mind and taken a look at some of the terrifyingly obscure writers who were awarded this prize, I now simply have to believe that the award itself is worthless.

 

I will continue to read JCO and other great writers with the same pleasure, and continue to look forward to discovering new writers; I will simply learn what I should have learned long ago, and that is to discount literary awards as any sign of literary value.

 

Christa