A much considered topic by authors, and the best advice I’ve heard on the subject. In the UK and Ireland, crime writers have their picture taken in front of a brick wall. No one knows why but this was the law for a while. When it comes to male literary writers in Ireland there is a certain style hierarchy - if you once won a prize you can wear a very long and extremely thin scarf. Nobody knows where these scarves are purchased as you never see them on sale anywhere. For a while I thought the Arts Council handed them out. If the male literary writer won a prize and has written a bestseller they can wear a big hat. Any Irish writer wearing both the thin scarf and the big hat is to be avoided at all costs as they are clearly mad.
A much considered topic by authors, and the best advice I’ve heard on the subject. In the UK and Ireland, crime writers have their picture taken in front of a brick wall. No one knows why but this was the law for a while. When it comes to male literary writers in Ireland there is a certain style hierarchy - if you once won a prize you can wear a very long and extremely thin scarf. Nobody knows where these scarves are purchased as you never see them on sale anywhere. For a while I thought the Arts Council handed them out. If the male literary writer won a prize and has written a bestseller they can wear a big hat. Any Irish writer wearing both the thin scarf and the big hat is to be avoided at all costs as they are clearly mad.
Thought of the first literary Irish writer who came to mind and can confirm this proved 100% accurate (not that I ever doubted you)