WHO PICKS THESE BOOKS???

We keep asking ourselves and each other:  Who selects these Booker prize-winners, and on what basis?  What is the magic formula, if any, and how does it vary between years?  We discuss how and whether politics, ethnocentricity, culture, age, literary snobbery, or other secret ingredients produce the list that we are so faithfully plundering. 

Here is a peek into the 2010 committee - for a book we have not read as a group, as it was selected after we began our journey back in time.  Does the mighty selection process seem somewhat defanged when you see a mere group of young mortals standing together for an office photograph, or do we get insight into the truly subjective and ever dynamic reality of literature?

And do we still wonder what they were thinking when they chose ______________  (fill in the blank with your most painful Booker memory!)

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