Comments on: Big as Life http://bigother.com/2010/02/06/big-as-life/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:01:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul Kincaid http://bigother.com/2010/02/06/big-as-life/#comment-4811 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:29:18 +0000 http://bigother.com/?p=4399#comment-4811 I think that story is included in his collection Sweet Land Stories. I’m not sure Doctorow is at his best in short fiction, he works better with more space and more leisure, but I seem to remember that one was pretty good.

]]> By: Greg Gerke http://bigother.com/2010/02/06/big-as-life/#comment-4806 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:35:38 +0000 http://bigother.com/?p=4399#comment-4806 As a sidebar, I’m a second hand bookstore, Goodwill, St. Vincent de Paul’s hound and EL Doctorow’s books show up with amazing frequency, more than any ‘literary’ author. I’d think this has more to do with monstrous print runs than anything.

I’m trying to think of the top ten literary novels most seen in these shops, besides EL there are:

The Corrections
Sue Miller stuff
Cold Mountain
Jane Smiley stuff
Updike stuff
And of course, Joyce Carol Oates

]]> By: Edward Mullany http://bigother.com/2010/02/06/big-as-life/#comment-4787 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:58:34 +0000 http://bigother.com/?p=4399#comment-4787 I wish I’d read more of Doctorow’s fiction…I’ve only read one story of his that was published a few years back in the New Yorker. I can’t remember its title, but it was about a religious sect that lived on a compound somewhere in Pennsylvania, I think. It was historical in the sense that it recalled recent instances of religious sects in distress in this country.

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