Thursday, September 16, 2004
Blume/Bloom
Judy Blume has been selected to receive the National Book Foundation's 2004 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Stephen King received the 2003 NBF medal, and Harold Bloom called the event "another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life." He also commented: "If this is going to be the criterion in the future, then perhaps next year the committee should give its award for distinguished contribution to Danielle Steel, and surely the Nobel Prize for literature should go to J.K. Rowling." Heh. I'd love to hear what Bloom has to say about Blume.
Stephen King received the 2003 NBF medal, and Harold Bloom called the event "another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life." He also commented: "If this is going to be the criterion in the future, then perhaps next year the committee should give its award for distinguished contribution to Danielle Steel, and surely the Nobel Prize for literature should go to J.K. Rowling." Heh. I'd love to hear what Bloom has to say about Blume.
| posted by Barbara | 1:39 AM