NP - for the Lit freaks

[matthew cissell]

You might be a lit freak if a movie about Maxwell Perkins and Thomas Wolfe
gets you excited. You're probably a Thomas Wolfe fan if the casting of Jude
law for The Gigantic writer dimmed your hopes a bit. (To be fair, it must
be nigh impossible to find someone as big as Wolfe but with talent for
delivering lines.)

  I know Wolfe's purple prose is out of fashion but he really does deserve
more attention than he receives, if not just for his writing than for his
story. How many other writers were there to cheer Jesse Owens right under
Adolph's stupid 'stache? Oh, and let's not forget that when Wolfe saw what
was happening in Germany in the late 30's it turned him from his
germanophilia.

Wolfe is a very important influence for US lit. Kerouac clearly was
influenced by Wolfe, but so was Bukowski and even our dear old Pynchon.

What's more, the relationship between Perkins and Wolfe lends credence to
Joshua Shenk's argument in The Power of Two that relationships are often
what lie behind cultural production rather than the "myth of the lone
genius has towered over us, its shadow obscuring the way creative work
really gets done." So what does that leave us to ponder about TP?

ciao
mc
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