Paul Auster on Poe, Pynchon, and 'Boy Writers'

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Auster himself is a second-rate writer. He started as a
too-clever-for-one's-own-good, watered-down Beckett (the NYC Trilogy). Yet
even the trilogy shines when compared to his later - lame and pretentious
- books.

[Quoting myself from the W.A.S.T.E. group on FB.]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I found the whole thing simply bullshit 'filler', latently, or overtly, sexist. The women who "make things up" have
always been marginalized. THEY write, have written, in Gothic, sci-fi, fanstasy genres.
"inner freedom"? what the fuck is THAT and one might think it is what women ONLY had....
I have avoided reading Auster. saw him talk once, and this confirms my suspicions---or I confirm my own projections,
 
 
 

From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Paul Auster on Poe, Pynchon, and 'Boy Writers'


Agree with Anne Margaret Daniel. Auster can't think of women writers who write good sentences and make things up or are important grown up writers, really?  Having read some Auster I would far rather read Margaret Atwood or Barbara Kingsolver for sheer creativity and beautiful craftsmanship than him.  Still Auster may be on to something in terms of a kind of inner freedom that has traditionally been given to males and is now, with powerful resistance, being seized and occupied by women and in more cases given as their rightful heritage.


On Jan 28, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-margaret-daniel/paul-auster-on-boy-writer_b_4670507.html
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> http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/auster-poe-conversation-paul-auster-and-isaac-gewirtz
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