Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
Leslie FiedlerThe novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
Leslie FiedlerThe novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Leslie FiedlerOf the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
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