Give Elmore The Nobel Prize!
Posted: 07 October 2007 08:36 AM   [ Ignore ]
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“Mostly, though, we wonder why really cool guys like Elmore Leonard or John D. MacDonald never even get nominated for The (Nobel) Prize.”

Me, too.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071007/NEWS/710070329/-1/NEWS

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Posted: 07 October 2007 09:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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You get up earlier than I do.

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Posted: 11 October 2007 06:33 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Let’s shoot for next year.

The New York Times:

Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her deep feminist engagement with the major social and political issues, won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature today.

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