There Are Things In American Culture That

Kafka Is Still Unrecognized. He Thought He Was A Comic Writer.

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.

Foucault Was The One Person I Met In France That I Could Talk To. He Was A Mensch. You Know Whether You Agree With Him Or Not Because You Know What He Is Saying.

One More Recent Novelist To Come Along Is Cormac Mccarthy. Him, I Like.

The Black Situation Has Changed. They Finally Realized They're Americans.