Re:The Printed Word in Peril
by cafard on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:06PM
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Hard to say.
"In March, I gave an interview to the Guardian in which I repeated my usual—and unwelcome—assertion that the literary novel had quit center stage of our culture and was in the process, via university creative writing programs, of becoming a conservatory form, like the easel painting or the symphony."
Hard to say. Various authors role out big literary novels at their pace: Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen come to mind, and they get respectable reviews.
"Furthermore, I fingered BDDM as responsible for this transformation, the literary novel being simply the canary forced to flee this particular mine shaft first."
I don't think that the RSPCA made it to the coal mines back then.
At the moment, I'm a bit too BDDMed to follow the argument all the way, though.
"In March, I gave an interview to the Guardian in which I repeated my usual—and unwelcome—assertion that the literary novel had quit center stage of our culture and was in the process, via university creative writing programs, of becoming a conservatory form, like the easel painting or the symphony."
Hard to say. Various authors role out big literary novels at their pace: Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen come to mind, and they get respectable reviews.
"Furthermore, I fingered BDDM as responsible for this transformation, the literary novel being simply the canary forced to flee this particular mine shaft first."
I don't think that the RSPCA made it to the coal mines back then.
At the moment, I'm a bit too BDDMed to follow the argument all the way, though.