Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Jeff Sunbury]

Inre Harold Brodkey, in the current New Yorker:
FICTION PODCAST: RICHARD FORD READS HAROLD
BRODKEY<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/fiction-podcast-richard-ford-reads-harold-brodkey.html#entry-more>
Richard Ford and fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, discuss Harold Brodkey's
writing before and after the reading. Mr. Ford generously praises Brodkey's
insightful realism concluding the short story form best suited Brodky's
detailed perfectionism and turn of phrase.


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

>
> Three novels which haven't been mentioned yet:
>
> *Tender is the Night* (Fitzgerald)
>
> *VALIS* (Dick)
>
> *The Runaway Soul* (Brodkey)
>
>
> None of these is perfect, but each one is - as Rushdie wrote in his review
> of The Runaway Soul - "worth a hundred safe little well-made books." For my
> understanding of America these novels are very important.
>
>
>
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