NP but Coetzee

[Charles Albert]

Must have spent a long time in its death throes.....it's gotta be 25 years
since New Yorker featured a cartoon, the caption of which read

*I just finished reading the new issue of People magazine, and my mind is
reeling.*

love,
cfa

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:50 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> No country for Old Men, stapled to a dying animal, no living nor
> lasting form to take other than a dying art, the book is haunted with
> death and regret and the ordinary mundane passionate intensity of a
> simple life and the nothing gold can stay themes of late romance. Even
> the condom under the bed, noosed, its life choked by the hands of its
> sordid description as Julia turns on Maria reminds us of narrative's
> impotent affairs in a postmodern world.
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > "Here's another reason you should read Summertime. It argues that almost
> no
> > one will--not even lovers, relatives and friends. The world no longer
> cares for
> > serious fiction."
> >
> > From a review of Summertime I could not, as usual, get published.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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