American - Critic | March 8, 1917 - January 29, 2003
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
Leslie Fiedler
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Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
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Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
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I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.
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I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.
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I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
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I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
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I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
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I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
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