![]() ![]() Rachel Cusk’s most recent book, Second Place, was “only” longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, but it is my bet that Cusk is not disappointed. In another way, think of the Booker Prize longlist as being the second place and, consequently, the shortlist as the first. Think of such notions as “the First Lady”. Think of any invention, of the Mars Race (or the Space Race in the 20th century), and of the ways in which symbolic immortality and commemoration is given to the first. Second place is either a win or a loss after all, the first place is always already the best option. Second place evokes inevitable comparisons and juxtapositions. ![]() Second place implies that somewhere out there exists a first place. The term “second place” presupposes a multitude of places, the amount of them being any whole number. ![]()
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