“It never ceases to startle me that a brilliant thinker can be such a bad writer. It challenges some of my preconceptions about language and thought.”—Rob Horning, “Exhaustion of generic raw material” Frank Hinton would be the first to tell you that I adore Steve Roggenbuck. Not only did his star rise as fast as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hate’
Newfound Footage from Stephen Elliott’s Shining Postscript and the Politics of Reading “Adrien Brody”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adrien Brody, Bake Butler, Frank Hinton, Hate, haters, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Jimmy Chen, Kate Zambreno, Kathy Acker, Madison Langston, new narrative, Peter Sotos, Rob Horning, Roxane Gay, satanic cats, Stephen Elliott, Steve Roggenbuck, submissive men, Tao Lin, The Rumpus, xTx on December 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Reader Rage, Henry James Hate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Temple of Texts, Anger, Arnold Bennett, Bill, Canal Street, Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, Edith Wharton, Hate, Henry James, Henry James and the Joys of Binge Reading, How to Make Sense, Literary Taste, People who hate Henry James, Philip Larkin, Quoting Philip Larkin's poem "This be the Verse" without giving him credit, Rage, Rudolf Flesch, The Believer, The Millions, Virgina Woolf, Ward, William Faulkner, William Gass on March 31, 2011 | 17 Comments »
To start, we have two simmering, searing proclamations: In A Temple of Texts, William Gass quoted Arnold Bennett’s book, Literary Taste: …your taste has to pass before the bar of the classics. That is the point, if you differ with a classic, it is you who are wrong, and not the book. (6) In the [...]