So I'm in the @WSJ this weekend, going on and on about Robert Heinlein. It's behind their paywall, but I know you're ingenious.
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@blm849@leesandlin He had more ambition than any other pulp writer. Read & wanted to join company of Nabokov, Barth, Roth. 3/n2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@leesandlin@blm849 I dunno. There's a fair bit of Nabokov in Number of the Beast -- to me, book is dimwitted copy of "Ada"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@leesandlin@blm849 Heinlein is an interesting example of how writers are helped by constraints they resent (genre rules, editors).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@leesandlin@blm849 Weird thing about Heinlein is that his worst books were his most popular. He found an audience for those terrible novels2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@leesandlin @blm849 It's a really odd thing. You talk to most people who remember RAH today & they always praise Future History or juveniles
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