How much?
Ian Hamilton: Literary pay and literary prizes, 18 June 1998
Guide to Literary Prizes, 1998
edited by Huw Molseed.
Book Trust, 38 pp., £3.99, May 1998,0 85353 475 6 Show More
edited by Huw Molseed.
Book Trust, 38 pp., £3.99, May 1998,
The Cost of Letters: A Survey of Literary Living Standards
edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson-Fletcher.
W Magazine, 208 pp., £2, May 1998,0 9527405 9 1 Show More
edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson-Fletcher.
W Magazine, 208 pp., £2, May 1998,
“... and entertain friends, a writer needs upwards of five pounds a day net. If he is prepared to die young of syphilis for the sake of an adjective he can make do on under.’ Nobody in the 1998 symposium attempts to echo Connolly’s louche self-indulgence (Sebastian Faulks attractively comes close, with his preferred target of £X + 52A + 2RT: ‘A’ stands ... ”