Mamet on Patrick O'Brian

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/011700mamet-writing.html
"The Humble Genre Novel, Sometimes Full of Genius"

A tad reminiscent of TRP's admiration for genre novels (as expressed in the
Luddite essay).  Mamet also fantasizes about talking with O'Brian about his
novels, but decides to write him a letter instead.  (Related topic:  am I
the only person on Pynchon-L who has actually written a fan letter --
actually, I wrote to thank him for writing his novels, stories, and essays
-- to TRP?)

"His Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic
Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today's putative literary
gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has
outlived Charles Reade. God bless the straightforward writer, and God bless
those with the ability to amuse, provoke, surprise, shock, appall."

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