It's Funny To Be A Critic.

Gertrude Stein Really Thought Of Hemingway As Frail. He Almost Married Stein.

There Are Things In American Culture That Want To Wipe The Class Distinction. Blue Jeans. Ready-made Clothes. Coca-cola.

Unless Criticism Refuses To Take Itself Quite So Seriously Or At Least To Permit Its Readers Not To, It Will Inevitably Continue To Reflect The Finicky Canons Of The Genteel Tradition And The Depressing Pieties Of The Culture Religion Of Modernism.

When All Of Us Are Forgotten, People Will Still Be Remembering Stephen King.

The Reason Saul Bellow Doesn't Talk To Me Anymore Is Because He Knows His New Novels Are Not Worth Reading.