Roth or Updike? I'd say Roth for narrative urgency, Updike for sensuous sentences. You gulp down a Roth novel, linger over Updike's words.
@matthunte @dg_myers Too complicated to tweet but for me fiction is incarnated in language & so lives or dies at the word & sentence level
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@HeerJeet Well@dg_myers is certainly on that team ( http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2009/12/sentences.html … ) and I am too.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@dg_myers I think this covers both sides of the discussion well: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/wood-v-updike-v-baker/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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