On the David Gilmour dust-up.
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But there’s an important line missing from the first paragraph: The piece should start with this quotation from a Don DeLillo novel:
“DON’T YOU REALIZE THAT AS LONG AS YOU HAVE TO SIT DOWN TO PEE, YOU’LL NEVER BE A DOMINANT FORCE IN THE WORLD?”
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My IHE post has now been corrected.
September 27th, 2013 at 2:48PM
So what if Professor Gilmore doesn’t like female writers? Big deal, I don’t like sentient, wide ranging, profound, thought provoking, hard working, iconoclastic, cliche free, fad hating, singular writers, that make me look an incompetent idiot. I wouldn’t read them, either….
September 28th, 2013 at 1:29PM
I wonder if blind tests – figuratively of course – would show that some female writers are very difficult to distinguish from males?
I think of Jhumpa Lahiri.
The first thing I ever read by her – without knowing she was a she – was a short story in the New Yorker. I also noticed this in parts of her later work.
Thoughts?
September 28th, 2013 at 3:57PM
Bill: I’m about to read my first Lahiri novel (I’ve read short stories). I’ll mull over what you’ve suggested while reading that…
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