Theodore Dreiser is not on TV tonight..

[alice malice]

well....sure...people read lots...tons....more than ever
Can't you tell?
The data prove it.

Have a conversation with any reader and you'll know, reading is in, is
Big, is huge, is, like, like poetry and fiction and classics and
stuff.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:30 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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