Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

This video clip of Doris Lessing is just priceless. I don’t know exactly how I would react to being told by reporters that I’d just won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but I can guarantee you it would not be like this.

(Hat tip to Dwight Garner via GalleyCat.)

READ MORE: “Prizing Doris Lessing,” by Christopher Hitchens (Slate); “What’s It All About?” by James Lincoln Warren (Criminal Brief); “Longevity Is Not Pleasing,” by Melodie Johnson Howe (Criminal Brief).