More awards. They are coming thick and fast with the Nobel so close now that you can smell it. Ian Frazier’s Lamentations of the Father – a book of essays – has won the Thurber Prize, which acclaims American humour. He gets a paltry $5,000. That’s probably a couple of hundred dollars per gag and being funny isn’t easy.
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