Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn: Book Review

There’s a passage near the beginning of Lost for Words in which Malcolm Craig MP, newly appointed chair of the Elysian Prize for literature, sets out his aspirations for the committee’s eventual winner:

...young writers were the future, or at any rate, would be the future - if there were still around and being published. You couldn’t go wrong with the future... The promise of young writers was perfect as well, until they burnt out, fucked up or died - but that would be under another government...