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[Mark Kohut]

parks has been very interesting as he works out his full experience of
reading and critically. I have been strongly against
some aspects of his generalizing, yet find other aspects illuminating.

yes to what Monte asks. I was going to ask the plist to riff on
'plot-driven' vs. not but Parks goes there too. (ever since I
started trying to read 'the best that has been thought and
said'--Arnold and then (too) much avant fiction when young,
plot can hardly hold me. Language, prose riffs, insight and
complexification of notions and perspectives.

We can start by discussing Parks here. From our coigns of vantage.

First: What does he WANT, that is, think makes the best fiction?
Realism, even dense realism, seems not to do it
and too much effort on the page doesn't do it. I wonder what he thinks
of GR, for example, about which we will all
remember all those readers then and later--vidal, say--who said it
showed off its own prose...as he says of Neumann.

anyway, talk amongst yourselves.



On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And to ask:
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/nov/10/how-could-you-like-that-book/
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