tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post112075737273574613..comments2024-02-20T17:22:43.089-06:00Comments on The Literary Assassin: still more newsHollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17764623327385255044noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-1120877248628848572005-07-08T21:47:00.000-05:002005-07-08T21:47:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-1120830069625665982005-07-08T08:41:00.000-05:002005-07-08T08:41:00.000-05:00Hee hee. Well, it depends on your life, I guess......Hee hee. Well, it depends on your <I>life</I>, I guess...<BR/><BR/>Okay. Getting gratuitous. Stopping now.AJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997146731281514599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-1120828298569147942005-07-08T08:11:00.000-05:002005-07-08T08:11:00.000-05:00Oh, you found Hannah, huh? Last I heard it was in ...Oh, you found Hannah, huh? Last I heard it was in publishing limbo; he'd been paid the advance but the editor had left, and no one knew what would become of it.<BR/><BR/>Mark Walters was my college creative writing professor. I learned a lot from him, tho not, perhaps, what he would have wanted me to learn. His two favorite words were "banal" and "ambivalent." His favorite authors were Updike andHollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764623327385255044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-1120790295907568682005-07-07T21:38:00.000-05:002005-07-07T21:38:00.000-05:00Oh. Wait. I think I found him. Told you I was good...Oh. Wait. I think I found him. Told you I was good at this...<BR/><BR/>One novel, far as I can tell. <I>Realizing Hannah</I>. In 1997. Seems to be pretty hard to get hold of, now.<BR/><BR/>Not that that's anything to be <I>ashamed</I> of, of course. I'm sure he was just ahead of his time or something.<BR/><BR/>Or it was a really bad book. But hey, it was his first. Maybe it just didn't find its AJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997146731281514599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-1120788634527491432005-07-07T21:10:00.000-05:002005-07-07T21:10:00.000-05:00Ummm... Who's Mark Walters? And why should anyone ...Ummm... Who's Mark Walters? And why should anyone give a rat's ass that he can't smell talent when it's right under his nose?<BR/><BR/>And I'm curious. Where's his career, lately? Cause I can't seem to find it on the web. And I'm pretty good at finding stuff. Even really inconsequential stuff.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, meow.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, for what it's worth, <I>I'm</I> a thoroughly bitchy, picky reader.AJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997146731281514599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-1120766050981488022005-07-07T14:54:00.000-05:002005-07-07T14:54:00.000-05:00Okay--pursuing this topic--never really got off it...Okay--pursuing this topic--never really got off it, to be honest...<BR/><BR/>All this throwing around terms of "literary" and "action" and whatever... what upsets me here is what's always upset me: the vast, jealously-guarded no-man's land between literary and genre fiction. We can argue round and round about whether it's real, and what defines it, and point out examples that seem to bridge the Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764623327385255044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-1120762215640019052005-07-07T13:50:00.000-05:002005-07-07T13:50:00.000-05:00Yeah, I'm probably putting too much weight on the ...Yeah, I'm probably putting too much weight on the post-modernist thing. I actually started to write "literary" in place of that phrase, but figured that was being too vague. Definitions aside, I think we all know what we're talking about.Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764623327385255044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-1120761152013677012005-07-07T13:32:00.000-05:002005-07-07T13:32:00.000-05:00Good rant, thanks for the link. Had to comment, an...Good rant, thanks for the link. Had to comment, and did so over on the LJ, too.<BR/><BR/>Still not sure the suckitude of much of the contemporary stuff is really much about postmodernism's baleful influence on literature, though. Beginning to think that while that contributes, it's more about folk with 'literary' pretensions who haven't been thinking terribly hard about just what literature is, AJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997146731281514599noreply@blogger.com