Coover and Vonnegut

chris abraham chris at artswire.org
Tue Jan 14 00:59:32 CST 1997


At 8:41 AM -0500 01/13/1997, Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote:
>At 11:20 -0500 12/01/97, Paul DiFilippo wrote:
>
>>Vonnegut has gone on record as stating that he believes our
>>contemporary media-saturated culture to have no place any longer
>>for fiction.  Of course, this feeling would have a chilling
>>effect on his future production.  Let's hope its just some
>>temporary megrims.

he also said that daytime soap operas have made women incapable of true
love... i paraphrase from a lecture i attended at UEA in 1991.
expectations that love is extreme: highs lows highs lows...

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