Theodore Dreiser is not on TV tonight..

[alice malice]

now back to your idiot box of choice.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:33 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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