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 [...]
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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 »
Interview with Ken Sparling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Artistically Declined Press, Baby Leg, Blood Meridian, Brian Evenson, Cormac McCarthy, Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, Derek McCormack, Gordon Lish, Hush up and listen stinky poo butt, Ken Sparling, Knopf, New York Tyrant, Pas de Chance, Pedlar Press, Philip Larkin, Sean Lovelace, The Border Trilogy, The Haunted Hillbilly, The Quarterly, The Road on January 4, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Sean Lovelace interviews Ken Sparling for Big Other
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