LONDON — A new literary prize aims to reward book reviews with edge.
The Hatchet Job of the Year Award honors “the angriest, funniest, most trenchant” review published in a newspaper or magazine in 2011.
Eight finalists for the prize were announced Tuesday. They include classicist Mary Beard’s dismissal of Robert Hughes’ “Rome” – “little short of a disgrace” – and Leo Robson’s verdict on Rachel Bradford’s “Martin Amis: The Biography.” He said it was “full of spectacularly bad writing – about spectacularly good writing.”
The shortlist also includes Geoff Dyer’s underwhelmed reaction to Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning “The Sense of an Ending.”
“It isn’t terrible,” Dyer wrote. “
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Staten Island restaurateur Edward Gomez plans on reopening Cargo Cafe as 120 Bay Cafe sometime in February. STATEN ISLAND, NY — Restaurateur Edward Gomez is currently readying his redux of Cargo Cafe at 120 Bay St. in St. George.