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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Replying to @SWGoldman @DrDominicGreen
Updike spent more energy on prose and Roth more on narrative. In the long, long run I think that'll give Updike an edge because the subset of readers who care about old books tend to do so for reasons of language.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @SWGoldman
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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For Updike I'd agree, Rabbit books, Maple stories, a carefully winnowed selected stories, and maybe a few other novels (Centaur, Of the Farm, Coup, Roger's Version). But also the essays & reviews (the best body of American non-academic criticism)
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