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

[rich]

perfect symbol for the Park Slope literary scene is mr auster


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:20 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

>  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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> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
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> Sent: Thu, Jan 30, 2014 9:50 am
> Subject: Re: Paul Auster on Poe, Pynchon, and 'Boy Writers'
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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.
>
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> On Jan 28, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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> > 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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