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

[malignd at aol.com]

Sophomoric bullshit, that compounds its stupidity with sexism.  And he, of course, lumps himself in with the boys, so the whole riff is clearly one of self celebration.


Flannery O'Connor?  Muriel Spark? Helen Simpson?



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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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