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Jarvis Cocker on judging the Booker prize: ‘It’s just like being in a band’

Jarvis Cocker on judging the Booker prize: ‘It’s just like being in a band’
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The singer on how being in Pulp prepared him for judging a literary prize, reading 163 books while on tour, and feeling like the odd one out on the panel• M John Harrison becomes the first science fiction author to win the Booker prizeJudging the Booker prize is like being in a band. A band will often bring together a…

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