Theodore Dreiser is not on TV tonight..

[alice malice]

Do people still read Crane, Bierce, London, Norris...even Chopin?
Supposedly a feminist.
Certainly not Booker T. Washington, not without WB to set things
right, or straight or correct.

Maybe some candidate, exploited by not one but by a team of faculty
will scribble in the corner an hundred pages on what was once called
Naturalism, will read London next to Orwell, will turn off the tube
and drive an ink stick int the heart of the American middle class
myth, on TV, or whatever it is people watch all day these days.

But read Dreiser?

Read?

Fiction?

American fiction?

Why would anyone still do that?

Dreiser?

He's not even Modern. Not even anything that casts a shadow on the wall.

Does anyone still read him?

Doesn anyone still read?
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