Who will be the next American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

I already miss Morbz, at least he would've gotten my joek

what happened to Morbz?!

51'd

Over the US elections?

I guess? Admin Log thread says it was a "slow accumulation". I didn't see anything particularly egregious, just his usual crap.

I just sometimes use scare quotes around terms. His acoustic songs from his electric period suck as well.

we are talking about Morbz now

"morbz"

also all this discussion should be on the de lillo thread, to annoy philip roth

wtf this is permanent?!

yeah you get to keep them iirc

Dylan sucks! Especially his 'electric' period, which is what I assume the committee referenced in their statement.

Wooden poetry > electric poetry

glad fred is as sensible about poetry as he is about u.s. politics

fred is sub-hongro at best.

his sanctimonious schtick is almost Morbzian maybe we can make him nu-Morbz

I'll continue til I'm seventy, and then my posts will win the Nobel, and won't you all feel stupid.

No one will take the Nobel seriously by then we would have all grown-up

Also the Swedes are wellknown Danophobes, complicating my plan further.

wtf this is permanent?!

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah you get to keep them iirc

― Har-@-Iago (wins), Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:03 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i lol'd

Mookie I want you to know that I only fpd u itt because I know you are never gonna approach 51 and we're still cool ok

I think the Nobel Prize Committee was just feeling kinda irrelevant, marginalized and down in the dumps and they needed something to cheer themselves up, so they made a pick where no one would say "huh, who's that?", a pick that would get people talking, a pick that provoked passion. Just watch, next year they'll pick whoever is the national poet of Kyrgyzstan.

Still, weird for them to lower themselves to the level of Q Magazine

Being associated with Dylan elevates the Nobel Prize

if anything in my opinion he is underrated and should get this prize again next year (for his painting)

finally, alfred has truly atoned

everyone must get atoned

Any other known plagiarists won the Nobel before?

"Good writers borrow, great writers steal." - Nobel Prize winner T.S. Eliot

if anything in my opinion he is underrated and should get this prize again next year (for his painting)

Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to the motion pictures industry at next Oscars, gotta happen.

Fred has warmed me to Dylan winning this tbh

as long as my favourite poster LUMBAGO MUJO is still around i'm happy

everyone must get atoned

if thomas pynchon doesn't win a grammy next year i will be soooo mad

lotion can collect it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH2ResrRr_A

If Shakespeare had been sung by Dylan I spose I'd hate it too so maybe, maybe

Girl From North Country is halfway there.

so no American is going to win this for 20 years, so let's meet back here in 2036 to complain about Lin Manuel Miranda.

If Shakespeare had been sung by Dylan I spose I'd hate it too so maybe, maybe

― the kids are alt right (darraghmac)

otoh shakespeare sung by jerry lee lewis fucking rules

Could see that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIpp2Jj8AQ

the more i read about this the more it's starting to annoy me, not least because it's caused a deluged of literary people writing about music, specifically about dylan, and they all have terrible music taste, boring hackneyed ideas, and are very happy to reduce music to being somehow the same as literature, or to amalgamate great art into some great man theory.

i just read in the irish times where somebody said, about dylan, "as a storyteller, he has no equal".

i like his music but this kind of cretinous overstatement is the exact reason the award should never have gone to dylan... we don't need to encourage those for whom massively canonical artists can never be feted enough.

my experience is that I got to delete a bunch of FB friends complaining about Dylan being white and male and not publishing his songs as chapbooks.

Dylan's worldwide impact on several generations of not just songwriters, but literary artists of all types, dwarfs that most people who could have the prize yesterday. If you don't think the nobel is for canonical artists idk

Yeah, because he was only relevant fifty years ago, he has impacted artists for a longer period of time. Yeah.

don't think an award for literature is for songwriters. don't think music is poetry or literary. it belittles both music and literature to claim otherwise.

like if we can give it to dylan why not give it to moritz von oswald

i don't expect they'll be giving music awards to halldor laxness or elias canetti anytime soon either. this is little more than encroachment of a famous figure into a less celebrated medium, and encroachment of a more popular medium into the territory of a less popular one.

If you don't think the nobel is for canonical artists idk

and i do think it is, but if you look back at the literary figures who've won it, they're not necessarily famous celebrity writers.

It's an honorary Nobel prize like giving idk Donald Sutherland a politics degree from trinity cos you liked his cameo in jfk