June 01, 2004

British Rely on American Aid in Race for Literary Superiority

The British have announced that they no longer feel inferior to U.S. novelists. The sudden burst in UK hubris, however, had much to do with noted American novelist John Updike singling out UK minority writers -- an option, according to the Guardian, apparently outside the purview of the typical Brit reader or the average Fleet Street hack.

Posted by DrMabuse at June 1, 2004 09:27 AM
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