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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…
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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…
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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 turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the…
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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…
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one;…
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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,…
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