When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.