I just finished John Dos Passos’ 1919, the second installment of U.S.A., one of the Great American Novels. When I looked for it on Bedford Avenue, the bookseller told me that not many people read him any more, which is a shame because he really is great. As Norman Mailer said, “Hemingway, Faulkner, Dreiser, and… Continue reading The Modernist Great American Novel
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Late Postmodern Novels: The Works of Justin Taylor and Blake Butler
Late postmodernism is finally being called something unselfconscious: subjectivism. Today there are a lot of memoirs written in a confessional style. Dave Eggers’ Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the quintessential work in the genre. Except it was written as a memoir, so its whininess can be forgiven. Since its publication ten years ago,… Continue reading Late Postmodern Novels: The Works of Justin Taylor and Blake Butler
Daniel the Writer 