Comments on: reality bites

By: Boy54

Boy54 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:28:35 +0000

Disguised as a mild-mannered literary activist, Charles Flowers strikes again! ,

By: Arnold64

Arnold64 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:09:32 +0000

First Duvivier, now Dieterle. ,

By: tom clark

tom clark — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:43:11 +0000

Hunger for Reality?

“This is what is known as a tragic flaw”.

“Literature”, with “authors”, mss., agents, etc., “age-old”, reduced to a Great Egg Race.

Which one topples over first?

Enough with the reality already.

Wrong from the Start

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:58:02 +0000

The thing is though, this Shields guy is right, and maybe knows he has to overstate his case a bit in order to get a hearing. Walk around a secondhand bookshop and look at all the novels even from the early 2000s that are hopelessly outdated and uninteresting. The equivalent memoirs continue to be worth reading. I was rereading Love’s Work by Gillian Rose recently and it was much more compelling than any of the fiction published in 1995.

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:35:35 +0000

I read the post on the millions and thought maybe you were being a little harsh. Then I read the second paragraph of the excerpt, beginning ‘I was nineteen years old and a virgin’, which, like ‘What did you say?’ in the movies, can only lead to a mess. And it does: ‘I am what I read. This is what is known as a tragic flaw’. And, with a book of fragments like this, if you can’t manage to find something interesting in 10 pages – even if it’s just a servicable, say, Nietzsche quote – then it’s them not you.