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Monday, May 12, 2008 --- 53 days ago http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/arts/papertiger/may08/lifewithoutfiction.htm
 This morning, on BBC Radio 4, a cabinet minister made a confession. Not Alan Johnson on Today - it will take more than a nudging from Evan Davis to break him - but John Hutton , Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on Start the Week . In the course of offering slightly hesitant praise to The Russian Jerusalem , by his fellow guest Elaine Feinstein, he let out that it was the first novel he'd read for ten years. Sudden burst of honesty: John Hutton Like most apparent confessions from politicians, this one contained elements of a boast: the reason that Hutton offered for his fiction drought was that all his reading time had gone into stuff about the First World War, subject of the book he was plugging . But it wasn't delivered with philistine pride; Mr Hutton sounded like a man wondering whether he was in the wrong place. More striking still was the lack of response. Listening to the tape again, there's a sort of collective nervous giggle in the studio after his remark, but no one actually takes him up on it. No novels of any kind for ten years - not a thriller on the beach, not a Pat Barker or a Sebastian Faulks in the course of First World War research, not a Harry Potter just to see what the fuss was, not a set text or a youthful enthusiasm with any of his four children. Is that normal now? Read more... ... |
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