American - Critic | March 8, 1917 - January 29, 2003
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
Leslie Fiedler
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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
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I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
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All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
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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.
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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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Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
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Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
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Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
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