Wood's "common reader"

[David Morris]

Thanks.

Now I know his next to read.

McElroy is difficult because it doesn't seek to entertain in the normal
sense.  Integration & digging in are required skills.  Laughter is rare.
Sex isn't.  The narrator is human, and unable to stop speaking.  But he
writes beautifully. I'm ordering Lockout Cartridge from Abe Books.

On Monday, October 22, 2012, Rich wrote:

> Lookout cartridge is best IMHO
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> Rich
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> On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:16 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Monday, October 22, 2012, Keith Davis wrote:
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>> I'm checking this guy out. Thanks. Where to start?
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>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:26 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> *I like postmodernism only when it intends to be serious in its reach.*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> *http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com/gh14content/Heppner.pdf*
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>> --
>> www.innergroovemusic.com
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