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Jarvis Cocker on judging the Booker prize: ‘It’s just like being in a band’
The singer on how being in Pulp prepared him for judging a literary prize, reading 163 books while on tour, and feeling like the odd one out on the panel • M John Harrison becomes the first science fiction author to win the Booker prize Judging the Booker prize is like being in a band. A band will often bring together a very disparate set of people, their only thing in common the fact they’re in the same group.…
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