Contemporary Fiction

[Dave Monroe]

But on the OTHER hand, speaking as a crate digger,
there's an awful lot that's been there for years,
decades, centuries, millenia, that ISN'T canonical but
worth bringing to the light of day nonetheless. 
Moby-Dick, Bouvard an Pecuchet, The Great Gatsby
didn't quite hit the first time 'round.  Feminists et
al. have been esp. good, I don't know, shelf dusters
...

Still, I feel like I should read War and Peace, finish
Don Quixote, read and reread no end of "classic,"
canonical texts before I go.  In the end, it may prove
to have been all that kept me here ...

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> You are certainly correct in sticking with
> contemporary literary fiction. However it would be
> a mistake to think that the only reason for doing
> so is the chance of happening upon some future
> immortal.
>
> Even if the author of the book you've just read
> isn't  destined to reach that particular promised
> shore, he or she may nevertheless be a talented,
> imaginative, inventive writer it would be a shame
> to have missed....

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