The Reading ExperienceA Literature and Criticism BlogOne Thing to Another- July 10, 2008 This is how Polish writer Magdalena Tulli's novel, Flaw (Archipelago Books), begins: First will come the costumes. The tailor will supply them all wholesale. He'll select the designs off-handedly and, with a few snips of the shears, will summon to...http://noggs.typepad.com/the_reading_experience/2008/07/one-thing-to-an.html Mars Sinking- July 7, 2008 Marisa Silver's The God of War (Simon and Schuster) is yet another mediocre novel that unaccountably has sent reviewers into raptures of praise, larding it with adjectives such as "beautiful," "stunning," and "exquisite." Such praise for a thoroughly drab, utterly...http://noggs.typepad.com/the_reading_experience/2008/07/marisa-silvers.html Betraying the Novel- July 1, 2008 In this interview, William Gaddis scholar Steven Moore says of populist attacks on experimental writers that Of course you don't have to like Joyce (or Pynchon or Gaddis), theyre certainly not for everyone, but to dismiss them as pretentious frauds...http://noggs.typepad.com/the_reading_experience/2008/07/betraying-the-n.html |