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[Keith Davis]

Thanks, Bekah, for the great interview! I've liked Fiedler ever since Stone Reader (thanks, Mark!), and my English professor friend describing him as the "wild man of American Literary Criticism ".


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> On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:50 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> On Dec 14, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On another topic, which might be too obscure, I recently saw, on a book jacket, a quote by Saul Bellow, something like, "so-and-so is the worst thing to ever happen to American literature...". Any idea who he's talking about? Maybe Henry Miller? I can't remember, and it's become one of those things I can't get out of my mind.
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> Leslie Fiedler - a critic - 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Fiedler
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> The quote - I found the source at: 
> http://www.salon.com/2003/01/02/fiedler/
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> The critic in winter 
> The legendary American literary critic Leslie Fiedler talks about his encounters with Hemingway and Faulkner, his falling out with Bellow and which contemporary novelists will last. 
> BRUCE BAUMAN
> 
> At the top of his voice, in the midst of a crowd of tourists, a large crowd, Bellow yelled, “Leslie Fiedler is the worst fucking thing that ever happened to American literature!” 
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> Bekah 
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