Novel Auction Offers Chance to Buy Immortality — “A place in literary immortality is on offer to the highest bidder.

Best-selling novelists Robert Harris (Enigma), Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle), Pat Barker (The

Ghost Road) and Zadie Smith (White Teeth) are among the authors agreeing to name a

character in forthcoming books after those prepared to pay up for the privilege. Reuters The slide into literary whoredom accelerates [and I liked Zadie Smith too!].