Morrissey: criticisms of debut novel are 'an attack against me'

The former Smiths frontman has hit back at negative reviews of his novel List of the Lost

Morrissey has said negative reviews of his debut novel List of the Lost, which was deemed “dreadful”, “laughably clunky” and “monstrously overwritten”, are personal attacks on him, rather than responses to the book.

“I strongly believe in freedom of expression and critics have to say what they have to say,” he wrote, in an email interview with a Chilean website (via Contact Music). “But often the criticisms are an attack against me as a human being and have nothing to do with what they’re reading.”

Related: List of the Lost by Morrissey review – 'verbose, tangential, unfocused'

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