employ author referee a Ping-Pong match. nature biased bloody-minded. — Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: Selected Letters

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters Jack McClelland

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I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue–among others–with the judging system, 1981)

Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

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