The Reason Saul Bellow Doesn't Talk To

I Think Henry Miller Has Had Huge Influence Not Because He Wrote About Sex, But Because The Memoir Or The Nonfiction Novel Has Become Such A Monumental Force In American Publishing, If Not In Literature.

I Never Met Anybody In My Life Who Says, I Want To Be A Critic. People Want To Be A Fireman, Poet, Novelist.

Of The Female Black Authors, I Really Like Morrison's Early Books A Lot. But She's Really Become So Much A Clone Of Faulkner. He Did It Better.

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.

Faulkner Sat In Our Living Room And Read From Light In August. That Was Incredible.