Dying public?

[Terrance]

Richard Romeo wrote:
> 
> Paul wrote:
> >
> >Max's mention of Philip Roth prompts ME to note I'm in the process of
> >reading The Human Stain. It's about one more maligned and falsely accused
> >male who happens to have been born the same year as me so naturally
> >sympathetic vibes abound. Another book I liked on this theme was Francine
> >Prose's Blue Angel. Definitely one of those surviving novel readers here.
> -------
> I wonder if Bellow and Roth are complaining about a certain type of fiction,
> that realist mode that both are proponents of. Methinks they are lamenting
> the loss of such a favored position that such writers had--hence, the
> backlash against the academy, and postmodern practictioners of the craft.
> The world has passed them by they feel. So blame the young, rock and roll,
> television. IMHO, I'd wish they go away.  Oh well, back to "Lucky Pierre at
> the Cunt Auction".
> 
> hehehe
> Rich


How does that work? NO! That's what critics do isn't it, cut
them off, tar and feather them, shove them in a box, put
them in the attic, just bellows full of angry wind, out with
Roth in with the I.R.A. Roth, late-twentieth century
realism, yes, that's a good box, Pynchon has nothing to do
with those post-war Jewish fiction,  no, boxes of this,
that, out with old farts, cut them off, clean slate, oh come
on.