literature

Now a book of the same title.

Quoted:As a natural-born child of the meritocracy, I'd been amassing momentum my whole life, entering spelling bees, vying for forensics medals, running my mouth in mock United Nations meetings and model state governments and student congresses, and I knew only one direction: forward, onward. I lived for prizes, praise, distinctions, and I gave no thought to any goal higher or broader than my next report card. Learning was secondary; promotion was primary. No one had ever told me what the point was, except to keep on accumulating points, and this struck me as sufficient. What else was there?

Quoted: We laughed at the notion of "authorial intention" and concluded, before reading even a hundredth of it, that the Western canon was illegitimate ... we skipped straight from ignorance to revisionism, deconstructing a body of literary knowledge that we'd never constructed in the first place

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Quoted: Wallace began to doubt the aspect of his work that many readers admired most: his self-consciously maximalist style. He was known for endlessly fracturing narratives and for stem-winding sentences adorned with footnotes that were themselves stem-winders. Such techniques originally had been his way of reclaiming language from banality, while at the same time representing all the caveats, micro-thoughts, meta-moments, and other flickers of his hyperactive mind.

"Tom Wolfe Got It Right"
Commentary on Wolfe's "My Three Stooges".
The fucked-up thing is that the Fort Bragg novella that immediately follows Wolfe's amazing essay, supposedly underlining the principles of literary realism, is one of the most unreadable pieces of crap ever written...
The moral of the story is: It's easier to edit and critique than to write fiction.
But Sheets is great: a pissed-off, right-wing, unpublished academic dyke writer who wants to shoot someone! You go gurl!

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Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture (Hardcover)By John Strausbaugh Buy new: $18.9660 used and new from $1.57 Customer Rating: First tagged "diddy" by Aubrey La...

Toni M!

Quoted: In this special, four-part reading, Toni Morrison presents a pivotal episode from her new novel, A Mercy. The book explores the repercussions of an enslaved mother's desperate act: she casts off her daughter to save her.

Quoted: academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays.