NY'er Lethem

[rich]

I'm all for experimentation and new ways of writing. I just find it boring
to read and indicative of current inheritors of the mantle created by the
Pynchons and Coovers of way back when. fiction should be dangerous and
deranged and whatnot. it is in the New Yorker. I shouldnt be surprised

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:24 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> First of all, the author has us from before we start reading when he
> accepts the category “fiction“ at the top of this writing. And the way he
> goes.
>
> First of all (again, I begin), he quickly smacks you in the face with the
> fact that he knows that you know that he knows he’s writing an article (not
> a short story or a short novel) for a magazine full of literary
> dilettantes.  So, OF COURSE he has decided to talk to us as if we are
> insiders, people who know how to play this game.
>
> Clearly, he is consciously fucking with the reader.
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 9:54 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> maybe the worst piece of fiction published there and that's saying
>> something. that he name drops RA Lafferty makes it worse
>>
>> rich
>>
>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/31/narrowing-valley
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