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Yet another reason I can't take competitive arts awards seriously. (For the record, I think "James" by Percival Everett is an exceptional novel by one of America's best authors. But the act of comparing artistic works and declaring a "winner" is absurd.) #Books #Bookstodon #Pulitzer #Novels #Literature nytimes.com/2025/05/06/books/j

In addition to appearing on most of the year’s best books list, Percival Everett’s “James” also won the 2024 National Book Award for fiction.
The New York Times · “James’ Won the Pulitzer, But Not Without ComplicationsBy Alexandra Alter

“We’ve returned to a stage where ‘reality’ as presented by authority is allowed unchallenged. We live or die by a value-system that is abhorrent, typically upper class, white-Anglo-Saxon-heterosexual male. In prose fiction this is expressed by a 3rd party narrative where the ‘voice’ is Standard English Literary form.”

—Existence is a guerilla campaign: Rastko Novaković interviews James Kelman

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Salvage · Existence is a guerilla campaign: an interview with James Kelman - SalvageMalignant bureaucracies, class hatred, the revanchist rump of British Empire - they were all on the wane we were told, but presently they are alive and virulent. These are the cold winds that blow through half a century of James Kelman’s writing, huddled around a warm poetic of everyday resistance.