Stifled by Success

[Mark Kohut]

Tim Parks can be good...but

1) Roth SURE AS HELL was worried that his novels were
influenced---misappropriated and therefore misunderstood and
used against him---by his own celebrity/success. He turned some of
that to use in the later fiction.

2) as we know Pynchon was 'not pushed into silence' if that meant he
did not keep writing as he wanted or did not
keep publishing a she wanted---and Salinger did not want to publish
anymore but there are novel-- upo to five are rumored--
that he kept writing, stored in his agent's safe and will be published
in the fullness of someone's time....

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "... Roth never seemed worried that he was allowing his novels to be
> influenced by this noisy engagement with his own celebrity. Conversely
> J. D. Salinger and later Thomas Pynchon allowed celebrity to push them
> into long periods of silence, as if success had forced them to become
> austere. But whether happy to join the scrimmage or appalled by the
> idea of being contaminated, all these writers are inevitably changed
> by the reception of their work and removed from the atmosphere of
> their initial inspiration."
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/mar/12/writers-stifled-by-success/
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