The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

"And now this masterly blasphemer, whose literary schemes and
pretty conceits touched at points on the Shakespearean, is gone,
and American letters, deprived in recent years of its giants,
Bellow and Mailer, is a leveled plain, with one solitary peak
guarded by Roth. We are coming to the end of the golden age of
the American novel in the twentieth century's second half."

Ian McEwan, "On John Updike"
_New York Review of Books_ Volume 56, Number 4, March 12 2009


Thinking of petty Tom and poor Willie,

Heikki