Ear­lier this week I started read­ing a Man Booker win­ner for the first time: Ver­non God Lit­tle. I’ve heard on good author­ity that it’s a great book and so far it’s liv­ing up to its reputation.

As chair­man of the 2008 Man Booker panel, Michael Por­tillo has been inter­viewed by The Econ­o­mist and reflects on “what it feels like to read 50,000 pages of non-fiction in one go”. He dis­cusses “the fine state of con­tem­po­rary fic­tion, the impor­tance of plau­si­ble end­ings (steer­ing clear of implau­si­ble coin­ci­dences) and the value of good read­ing glasses.”

via Intel­li­gent Life