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On a novel by this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature:
"In Snow, translated by Maureen Freely, the line between playful
farce and gruesome tragedy is very fine. For instance, the town's
newspaper publisher, Serdar Bey, prints an article describing Ka's
public performance of his poem 'Snow.' When Ka protests that he
hasn't written a poem called 'Snow' and is not going to perform it in
the theater, Serdar Bey replies: 'Don't be so sure. There are those
who despise us for writing the news before it happens.... Quite a
few things do happen only because we've written them up first. This is
what modern journalism is all about.' And sure enough...."
-- Margaret Atwood in the New York Times Book Review of Aug. 15, 2004
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