NP - for the Lit freaks

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thanks a lot for the nice essay by Joshua Shenk that I didn't know!

But I think there's a white gap between "the power of the two" Beatles or
say Brackett & Wilder or Gilbert & Sullivan or Hart & Kaufman and the power
of Wolfe and Perkins combined where as with Carver and Lish the
non-productive part knows how to cut. (And some say the original Angel – O
Lost – was better; I don't know – I read Look Homeward with 12, was
entranced, read For Whom the Bell Tolls with 14 and was spellbound.)


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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