...Howard Jacobson attacks the dearth of 'good readers'
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Jacobson said that the reader needed a "strong stomach" and ought to be able to withstand the "expression of an ugly point of view" in a book. There was, he added, great danger in the "politically correct" pressure that urged "you can't write about women like that, you can't write about men like that, you've got to be careful what you say about gays, you've got to be careful what you say about Jews… But you have to be able to say of the novel that it has free rein – it can go anywhere."
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