The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
From Leslie Fiedler
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
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