Re: “If that's ‘hysterical realism' I'm proud to be on that team”

[Michael Bailey]

harsh words

especially interesting that he thinks the HR school less relevant
after 9-11...I'd'a thunk "more"

"We encountered Rudy and
Hillary, J-Lo, the Puerto Rican parade, Bush versus Gore, the film
Gladiator and so on.  Of course, the book was already obsolete when it
appeared in early September, just before the terrorist attack. Its
trivia-tattoo had already faded. But now it seems grotesque, a
time-stamped scrap of paper"

hmmph...and yet the same characters paraded around
after and to this day in reality with the same shenanigans as ever...
but, what, now we're supposed to take them seriously?
spot me a break...


>  US novelists must now abandon social and theoretical glitter, says James Wood
>
>  Saturday October 6, 2001
>  The Guardian
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>  [...]
>
>  Hysterical realism is not exactly....