P.'s Musings on _Warlock_

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!  That explains the title, "The Gift."  I
actually gave a friend a copy of Patriotic Gore, along
with a copy of Wm. Carlos Wm.s' In the American Grain
(guy writes poetry, teaches literature, is a big Am
History aficianado, but had never heard of either!). 
Pan, by the way, was a source for Guy Madin's Twilight
of teh Ice Nymphs (1997), though it's hardly an
adaptation.  But here's a Labor Day weekend question
for y'all, which might get us in the spirit of "The
Gift" as well.  Name yr own "books that are excellent
but for some reason failed to attract wide attention."
 I could go on and on, and, of course, will, but ...
but if I had to name one, it'd be Raymond Roussel's
Locus Souls.  Claude Simon's Conducting Bodies. 
Barbara Maria Stafford's Body Criticism.  Lawrence
Weschler's Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder.  George
Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH. 
Clifford Simak's City.  Et cie. ...

--- Steve Maas <tyronemullet at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The December 1965 issue of _Holiday_ magazine
> includes _The Critical Eye_,  which in that issue
> focused on books and was subtitled "A Gift of
> Books."  The introduction reads:
> 
> "With the Christmas season and Christmas giving in
> mind, the Editors asked some of America's
> distinguished authors and critics to contribute to
> a unusual list of books--books that are excellent
> but for some reason failed to attract wide
> attention. Here are the responses, each a rich
> tribute to a favorite neglected piece of good
> reading."
> 
> The individual entries, which are untitled, include:
> Joseph Heller on Heinrich Boll's _Billiards at
> Half-Past Nine_
> Alfred Kazin on Edmund Wilson's _Patriotic Gore_
> Edward Albee on Howard Moss' _The Magic Lantern of
> Marcel Proust_
> Thomas Pynchon on Oakley Hall's _Warlock_
> Edward Dahlberg on Herbert Read's _The Contrary
> Experience_
> Saul Maloff on Jorge Luis Borges _Ficciones_ and
> _Labyrinths_
> Isaac Bashevis Singer on Knut Hamsun's _Pan_
> Harvey Swados on Ralph Bates' _The Olive Field_


	
	
		
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