Poets & Writers Theater
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“Almost every great novelist has got a comedian in him, in her, somewhere or other.” Man Booker Prize–winning author Howard Jacobson speaks about the necessity of failure and comedy in literature, and what makes a novel funny.
Tags: Fiction | Howard Jacobson | comedy | Man Booker Prize | Royal Society of Literature -
British author Howard Jacobson, who has been described as the love child of Jane Austen and Philip Roth, won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question.
Tags: Man Booker Prize | Bloomsbury | 2010 | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | Fiction
