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Celebrating snubs from the Booker longlist
t isn’t exactly an iconoclastic take that the Booker Prize, which released its latest longlist last month, is about as useful a way of discovering the year’s best literary releases as blue-tick Twitter is for finding people who aren’t mental. The omissions of Eliza Clark, AK Blakemore, Barbara Kingsolver, Brandon Taylor, Catherine Lacey, Emma Cline and Alice Wynn, among numerous others, suggest that the judges weren’t just in a bubble this year, they were huddled in an oubliette in some distant