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All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

~Leslie Fiedler

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Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

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Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

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Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

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Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

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I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: March 8th, 1917

Died: January 29th, 2003

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