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