Monday, November 05, 2007
McGoogan: non-fiction don't get no respect
Posted by
Christopher Moore
Ken McGoogan's polemic about non-fiction in Saturday's Globe here. "Have I gone mad?" he asks. Well, yes, you have, Ken, when you propose three Governor-General's Prizes for various kinds of non-fiction. There are already 14 GGs a year -- do we really have 14 masterpieces to support them. But otherwise it's a lively essay.