Those grubby letters are a gift

[Dave Monroe]

Those grubby letters are a gift

Saturday December 8, 2007
The Guardian

[...]

"Common themes are how hard it is to write, and to make a living as a
writer," said Tibor Fischer in the Telegraph, reviewing The Paris
Review Interviews, Volume 2. "The two outstanding turns are Philip
Larkin and William Faulkner," he concluded. "I have never been able to
finish a book by Faulkner but his footwork in this interview would
shame most politicians." An interview with Graham Greene in 1955 is
"so crass and interminable that it's hilarious", said Fischer, who
also noted that the critic Harold Bloom's "literary judgments are
unequivocal: he puts the boot into Alice Walker, Salman Rushdie, later
Thomas Pynchon and the New Testament".

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