"Good taste is for people who write about fish forks and napkin rings –
it is not the purview of novelists. We want, and need our fiction, to
shock us out of the everyday. Stories that stem from reality, a glimpse
of a woman from a window, are the most unsettling of all. The crime is
that Lord Bell, and the great enraged, don’t get that. Thought is not,
as yet, a crime."
Damian Barr on the ridiculous furore over the publication of Hilary Mantel's short story 'The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher - August 6th 1983', which prompted Lord Bell to demand a police investigation and Stephen Glover to start foaming at the mouth in a manner befitting a Daily Heil columnist.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
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