NP - for the Lit freaks

[Erik T. Burns]

Not to mention Gaddis & the "unswerving punctuality of chance", which is
from _Look Homeward, Angel_ & used in every one of WG's novels.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:08 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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