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Blooker in NYTimes (albeit briefly)

lulu’s Stephen Fraser is delighed to let us know that the Blooker gets a mention in today’s NYTimes Arts, Briefly column just after the section heading Da Vinci and the unstoppable Harry Potter:

Blogs, including the diary of a prostitute and a guide to Britain’s best greasy-spoon cafes, are on the short list of 16 for the inaugural Lulu Blooker Prize, to be announced on Monday, the BBC reported. Sponsored by the self-publishing site Lulu, the Blooker Prize honors blooks, or books from blogs, published in English anywhere in the world.

I note that the NYTimes remains a provincial paper, not doing original Blooker reporting but merely disgesting the news from the motherland (via BBC). The result is that great American finalists don’t get a mention but blooks on bad British habits get the bang.

2 Comments

  1. coturnix

    Just wondering if the media coverage is affecting your judging, in a way that jurors are often instructed not to read about the case in the paper. Do you now hold a grudge against the UK blooks because of all the notoriety they got in the press, perhaps just very faintly and subconsciously?

  2. Paul

    Hee hee! Nope, we picked the winners some time earlier. I love several of the UK books especially Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans. But I can’t tell you if it’s a winner or not — til Monday.

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