[Irene Wilde]

There will no doubt be a film. It will no doubt be huge. People will read the book and think they are very literate for reading a book considered for a literary prize. They will come here and want to discuss this masterpiece endlessly while complaining about writers like Joyce and Pynchon, with phrases like, "I just don't get them" or "their books don't draw me in like Smith's classic Child 44." Anyone attempting to show them the error of their ways will be called elitist. It will be minutes of entertainment.

Thank you, Booker people.