Wood's "common reader"

[David Morris]

I've only read "An actress in the house," which I enjoyed.  It's much
shorter than "men and Women," written much earlier, and supposed to be
great, but very long.

On Monday, October 22, 2012, Keith Davis wrote:

> I'm checking this guy out. Thanks. Where to start?
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:26 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> *I like postmodernism only when it intends to be serious in its reach.*
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>>> *http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com/gh14content/Heppner.pdf*
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>> What constitutes a Joseph McElroy novel? Let’s start by throwing out the
>> stupid and obvious. It’s not length because McElroy can be succinct and
>> frequently is. It’s not the supposed thorny and compacted nature of the
>> sentences because McElroy can be transparent when he wants to be. (From Women
>> and Men, page 516: “Chick never had as much homework as Gordon.They did
>> not discuss school. Chick got strapped by his mother once in a while and
>> his mother gave him orange juice for supper instead of milk.”) It’s not
>> whatever he might have in common with some of his contemporaries, the
>> Pynchons and Gaddises, because quite honestly I don’t see it. I see Proust,
>> I see James, but not Coover or Barth. Don’t let the pub dates fool you: Joseph
>> McElroy is **not a postmodernist.The seriousness of his mission and his
>> concern with inner landscapes—memory, suppressed trauma—locate him closer
>> to the modernist sensibility of Picasso and Schoenberg than the postmodern,
>> street-beat vibe of Warhol and rock and roll.
>>
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