A major literary writer has switched up their style entirely, and it's a huge improvement
For the last few months, friends have texted me about several viral takedowns of Ocean Vuong.| www.woman-of-letters.com
For the last few months, friends have texted me about several viral takedowns of Ocean Vuong.| www.woman-of-letters.com
Last year I wrote a series of posts about my dissatisfaction with contemporary literary fiction: I wrote about the literary hype-machine, about literary short stories, about Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain and Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, about the lack of moral vision in contemporary novels| www.woman-of-letters.com
Most countries take their popular novelists more seriously than America has — Not preachy or overdetermined — Reads like the offspring of Dickens and Tolstoy — Yes, it has issues, beginning is uneven — The term “Great American Novel” was literally invented to describe this book| www.woman-of-letters.com
