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[Steve Maas]

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For the World of Letters, It's a Horror
Giving a National Book Foundation award to Stephen King
is only the latest chapter in the dumbing down of our culture.
By Harold Bloom

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Today, there are four living American novelists I know of who are still at 
work and who deserve our praise. Thomas Pynchon is still writing. My friend 
Philip Roth, who will now share this "distinguished contribution" award with 
Stephen King, is a great comedian and would no doubt find something funny to 
say about it. There's Cormac McCarthy, whose novel "Blood Meridian" is 
worthy of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," and Don DeLillo, whose "Underworld" 
is a great book.

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