Dave Eggers has been a polarizing figure from the moment his first book hit the bestseller lists, using his fame as a vehicle to disseminate periodic manifestos on myriad controversial topics, some literary, some not. Now, Eggers is taking up the cause of the shamefully underpaid American schoolteacher. His new ‘oral history book’ on the subject “makes a compelling case for investment in education to be put in the pockets of the teachers. Pay them, it argues, and their wealth shall trickle down into the community, the economy and the future. It is hard to disagree.”
Tag: 10.11.05
Banville Wins ’05 Booker
John Banville has become the first Irish author since 1993 to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for literature, in the most closely contested judging the contest has seen in years. Banville’s novel, The Sea, just beat out Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, with the chairman of the judging panel casting the decisive vote. “Banville’s win was a neat reversal of fortune. In 1989 his novel, The Book Of Evidence, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize but lost out to Ishiguro’s The Remains Of The Day.”