Overrated Writers
The Overrated Writers of 2006
by Levi Asher on Thursday, June 8, 2006 10:03 pm
Here they are, the LitKicks Overrated Writers of 2006: Philip Roth, Joan Didion, William Vollmann, Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Lethem.
Overrated Writers, Part Four: Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Lethem
by Levi Asher on Thursday, June 8, 2006 06:05 am
Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Lethem are my final two selections for the five most overrated writers of 2006.
Some readers find Cormac McCarthy's stiff, humorless syntax appealing. I guess this is the way people talk out on the wild western frontier, in long flat sentences, with no commas to spare. Here are the first lines from The Crossing, the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy:
Some readers find Cormac McCarthy's stiff, humorless syntax appealing. I guess this is the way people talk out on the wild western frontier, in long flat sentences, with no commas to spare. Here are the first lines from The Crossing, the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy:
Overrated Writers, Part Three: William Vollmann
by Levi Asher on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 05:55 am
I have tried hard, so very hard, to appreciate William Vollmann, a wildly original postmodernist obsessed with history and human aggression who is considered a great intellect by several people I respect. I've eagerly bought his thick, intimidating books, and I have put in solid time trying to read them. I will not try anymore.
Overrated Writers, Part Two: Joan Didion
by Levi Asher on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 06:04 am
Call it sacrilege ... I just can't get behind this Joan Didion craze. She wins the second position on the LitKicks Overrated Writers List of 2006.
Overrated Writers, Part One: Philip Roth
by Levi Asher on Monday, June 5, 2006 06:50 am
Philip Roth once wrote a great, great book. It's called Goodbye, Columbus and it's his first book, published in 1959. The title novella is a hilarious, piercing tale of a doomed love affair between a poor bookish urban Jew and a spoiled Jewish-American Princess from the suburbs.
