Hatchet Job of the Year Award 2011 on the Spectator Blog
09/02/2012
David Blackburn, literary impresario and mind behind the Spectator book blog‘s recent renaissance, wrote up a very nice post on the Hatchet Job party:
The bash was an unqualified success, but Geoff Dyer seemed a little irked that his neat assault on Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending had been overlooked. His equilibrium was restored, however, when the evening’s sponsor, a genial cove from the Fish Society, quoted a pithy Dyerism in his speech. Dyer inclined his head and nodded in recognition. It was either a show of self-regard or a moment of winning vulnerability.
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