1. A few thoughts on bad books by great writers. Bad books should be seen as necessary failures that push writers to better work.
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2. Philip Roth wrote a string of middling, flawed & terrible books in the early 1970s (Great American Novel, Our Gang, My Life as a Man)
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3. Flawed Roth novels were a necessary stage where he worked out his outrageous comic spiel & anger, before more controlled Zuckerman series
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4. Updike's Rabbit Redux is weakest of book of series (especially utterly unconvincing engagement with black radicalism & hippies) BUT ...
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5. ...with Redux, Updike became more ambitious. Rabbit, Run was narrow book but Redux & later books tried to encompass USA
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@CarlRobertAnd Interesting thought. But Maple Stories (late 1960s/1970s) are among his best, no?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@CarlRobertAnd Those early stories are special but not sure -- I think novels gave a scope his talent needed.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@CarlRobertAnd Hard to argue these things on twitter but I think novels allowed him to deal with stuff stories gave short shrift to.
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