Posted
9:09 AM
by Gene
LI-TE-RAH-TEEYURE IS BETTER THAN EVER!!!!! When did a novel last capture the public's imagination? Not a piece of pablum or selling, but a good book? Unfortunately reading fiction has become another cult, a minority taste, like the theater, and thus when some flack talks about this GRAND RENAISSANCE OF WRITING it is hard to take him seriously, in part because so much of LI-TE-RAH-TEEYURE's recent history is LOGROLLING (as with this clown; several of the books he praises haven't officially come out yet), and even he notes we've had a half-dozen or so such renaissances in the last twenty years, all vanished without a trace. A good book requires time, and patience, and talent, and taste, and we don't have those things anymore.