tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post1117707223340632464..comments2022-10-10T08:34:58.715-04:00Comments on Antilles: the weblog of the CRB: 2008 CRB books of the yearNicholas Laughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08636815243848162408noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post-31659071802880825832009-01-02T16:15:00.000-04:002009-01-02T16:15:00.000-04:00well said at 9.09 PMwell said at 9.09 PMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post-52687427998897979862009-01-01T23:03:00.000-04:002009-01-01T23:03:00.000-04:00Very pleased to see that Jacob Ross' novel was one...Very pleased to see that Jacob Ross' novel was one of your selections. I pride myself on having read a sizeable portion of Caribbean literature and this new and surprisingly fresh and profound narrative voice left me wonderstruck.<BR/> Keep up the good work, CRB.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post-20257854658881920282008-12-31T21:09:00.000-04:002008-12-31T21:09:00.000-04:00If the Naipaul bio qualifies, then what about Neth...If the Naipaul bio qualifies, then what about Netherland, which I am quite sure was better by far than everything else on the list?<BR/>And perhaps a simple and admirable resolution Antilles might adopt in the New year would be to stop talking down to its "dear readers"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post-21673220917251277962008-12-31T18:35:00.000-04:002008-12-31T18:35:00.000-04:00Reading French's biography of Naipaul, one thing t...Reading French's biography of Naipaul, one thing that struck me (other than Naipaul having lived not that far from me in London when I was a boy), was Naipaul asking Lloyd Reckord if he knew any fast women. That's a seriously arresting image.<BR/><BR/>I note that Naipaul's long-time editor at André Deutsch, Diana Athill, got the OBE for services to literature in the New Year's Honours.FSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.com