A judge for the Orange Prize for fiction, "awarded to the woman who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English," described her experience for the Guardian. It was pretty entertaining, especially the part where she described one of the other judge's reactions to a rather racy novel among the contenders:

"I can't read about all this sex! Don't they know I'm a librarian?"

[via Bookslut]

Posted by Hilary at June 16, 2004 05:35 PM