in the way that Bob Dylan is a "good-bad" singer, who are "good-bad" writers? Are people whose prose has notable deficiencies — Lovecraft and Dick are two obvious examples — great in spite of their writing or does their....idiosyncratic....style productively work with their ideas
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Replying to @xlorentzen @Bernstein
what about the lethem/chabon enthusiasm for comic books and sci fi?
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No man, the modernist high/low division has been the anomaly in literary history (running from around 1890-1960). Something like poptimism has been the norm for narrative art since forever.
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Best-selling author Herman Melville?
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Melville's problems selling Moby Dick were probably a precursor to high/low division. But you had quality books as bestsellers well into 1880s (Trollope, Tolstoy).
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