Marcus v. Franzen = Unexpected Wolfe sighting

Adam Stephanides · 22 Oct 2005, 01:35 · from 2005-October.txt.gz

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From: adamsteph at earthlink.net (Adam Stephanides)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:35:40 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
Subject: (urth) Marcus v. Franzen = Unexpected Wolfe sighting
Message-ID: <7083514.1129944940768.JavaMail.root at elwamui-ovcar.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

On the personal blog of the person who wrote that post, there are two other posts on Wolfe:

http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2005/09/on_terrible_neo.html

and

http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2005/09/rich_on_wolfe.html

Both are followed by contentious discussions (the latter of which I participated in).

--Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Sab <mbs808 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Oct 17, 2005 9:18 AM
To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
Subject: (urth) Marcus v. Franzen = Unexpected Wolfe sighting

In this month's Harper's magazine, Ben Marcus rips
into Jonathan Franzen in "Why Experimental Fiction
Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and
Life as We Know It."

The Valve's discussion of the essay has an unexpected
Gene Wolfe appearance:

I read very little poetry by design and constitution. 
I lack the patience required to work through poetry if
it lacks the puzzling qualities I value in writers
like Joyce.  (I mean "puzzling" literally there, as in
"like a puzzle" which I?m enjoined to put back
together.  Hence my love/hate relationship with Gene
Wolfe.)

Full text here:

http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/aggresively_masturbatory_fiction_or_two_authors_enter_only_ben_marcus_may_l/

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