Wood vs. Tanner on Paranoid Plots & Camus and Conrad and James too

[alice wellintown]

Rich,

I'm surprized that youare challanging me on this. As I am sure you are
aware many authors of great, very good, or decent prose fiction write
excellent travel literature.

And then there are those who write travel literature and don't write too
much else. These are, again, as I know you are quite aware, published in
magazines, journals, and even in newspapers.

The best are collected in anthologies, put out by Norton and Cambridge and
Oxford and so on.

And, of course, there are the authors of history. A selection of passages
from the best books about NYC will match anything Pynchon and Dellio have
written about the Big Apple.

In one of his essays (Slow Learner?) Pynchon mentions literary theft. Well,
novelists beg borrow and steal from their non-fiction brothers and sisters
all the time. And, while fiction makers may weave these stolen strings and
woven mats into grand tapestries, thus altering the original as they do so,
though not always improving on them, they often do this not because they
are lazy but because they admire the original and recognize its excellence.





On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:58 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> ms. wellington--
>
> prove it. who are you talking about?
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:41 PM,  <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> > n. In fact, there are lots who do a
> > finer job than either Don or Pynchon.
> >
> >
> >
>
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