BETTER EVEN THAN A GOLDEN NOTEBOOK: Doris Lessing just won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 87, becoming the oldest person to do so. I have enjoyed many of her science fiction books, notably the Canopus in Argos: Archives Series (1979-1983), although her work as a whole is quite broad.
Harold Bloom is not a fan of the Academy's decision, noting that "her work for the past 15 years [has been] quite unreadable ... fourth-rate science fiction."
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