{"id":137793,"date":"2024-12-11T11:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/sarah-jessica-parke-to-judge-the-booker-prize\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:01:38","slug":"sarah-jessica-parke-to-judge-the-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/sarah-jessica-parke-to-judge-the-booker-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Jessica Parke to  judge the Booker Prize."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-12-11\" datetime=\"1733914898\" pubdate=\"\">11 December 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/sarah-jessica-parker\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,sarah-jessica-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Jessica Parker<\/a> is to judge the Booker Prize.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Sarah Jessica Parker is to judge the Booker Prize<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old actress will be on the panel for the prestigious literary award early exit and her involvement all began when she made a plea on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>She told the New York Times: &#8220;Well, I certainly wasn\u2019t saying it with any hope or thought that it was going to be considered a serious offer. I would never be so bold, nor do I think I\u2019m equipped. I just thought the idea of reading all of these books that would be in serious or thoughtful contention would be the thrill of a life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think of judges as academics, learned, experienced in ways I\u2019m just not. I didn\u2019t pursue higher education. I don\u2019t have any degrees. I separate my devotion to reading from those who can talk about it, criticize it, make judgments, have feelings that are worthy of public discourse. All those ideas seem anathema to my relationship to books. Even when I went into publishing, I felt very nervous about people taking me seriously. I felt like an interloper, and that I was constantly in a position of having to prove myself.<\/p>\n<p>So to be a judge on the Booker, which is the greatest literary award bestowed \u2014 it felt very daunting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe former &#8216;Sex and the City&#8217; star explained that her approach to the whole thing will just to be to &#8220;listen a lot&#8221; to those around  her.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I\u2019m just going to listen a lot. That\u2019s the way I\u2019ve probably created a career outside of acting: just being surrounded by people who are expert and listening, listening, listening.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd I\u2019m assuming that all of the judges are going to be kind and excited, and also feel the weight of these conversations. We\u2019re talking about people\u2019s work. I want to be really thoughtful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/sarah-jessica-parke-judge-booker-prize-1410427.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 December 2024 Sarah Jessica Parker is to judge the Booker Prize. Sarah Jessica Parker is to judge the Booker Prize The 59-year-old actress will be on the panel for the prestigious literary award early exit and her involvement all began when she made a plea on Instagram. She told the New York Times: &#8220;Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[285],"class_list":{"0":"post-137793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-sarah-jessica-parker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}