Salinger mawkish & boring. Mailer a media clown lacking rhythm & intellect. Kerouac false & windy. Not convinced that DFW will last; same, not entirely justly, goes for Roth & Updike.
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you guys read Robinson's Marked Men on these guys?
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“Might Updike not have allowed one blind noun to slip free of its seeing-eye adjective?” —Gore Vidal
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Similar flaw in Aldous Huxley's fiction.
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Not convinced by this distinction. Narrative is a method of prose, and prose the method of narrative. Also, plenty of people read 'old books' as social history, irrespective of quality.
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