The author Jeanette Winterson has set fire to a pile of her newly republished books after saying she “hated the cosy little domestic blurbs” on them. In a tweet on Friday night, the author defiantly wrote: “Absolutely hated the cosy little domestic blurbs on my new covers. The burned books were: The Passion, her 1987 novel set in Napoleonic Europe; 1992’s Written on the Body; 1995’s Art and Lies; and The Powerbook from 2000. In a statement to the Guardian, Winterson said: “Each of those books was doing something different at the time, both with form and content. The blurbs had none of this and turned the books into the tame and the obvious.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2021 21:53 UTC