Fwd: Stifled by Success

[Mark Kohut]

3) and all writers are changed by the rejection and non-publiscation
of their work
too and maybe everyone, writers or others, moves away "from the atmosphere
of their initial inspiration" because TIME. over Time and life lived
even just by writing.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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