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O portátil de McCarthy

A máquina de escrever que Cormac McCarthy comprou em 1936 vai hoje a leilão aqui. «It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose. ... I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence I would put this at about five million words over a period of 50 years

Bad Sex in Fiction Award atribuído a Jonathan Littell

A Literary Review entregou a edição de 2009 a The Kindly Ones (As Benevolentes, D. Quixote), obra vencedora do Goncourt em 2006. Comentário do júri: «It is in part a work of genius. However, a mythologically inspired passage and lines such as "I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg" clinched the award for The Kindly Ones. We hope he takes it in good humour.» A passagem do livro que mereceu tamanha distinção pode ser lida aqui.