There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.
Frederick BuschLet's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.
Frederick BuschI enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.
Frederick BuschI have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.
Frederick BuschWe are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.
Frederick Busch