The Naked and the Conflicted

[Dave Monroe]

The Naked and the Conflicted
By KATIE ROIPHE
Published: December 31, 2009


For a literary culture that fears it is on the brink of total
annihilation, we are awfully cavalier about the Great Male Novelists
of the last century. It has become popular to denounce those authors,
and more particularly to deride the sex scenes in their novels. Even
the young male writers who, in the scope of their ambition, would
appear to be the heirs apparent have repudiated the aggressive
virility of their predecessors.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/review/Roiphe-t.html