Small g, Big G

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 20 Jan 2003, 17:06 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Small g, Big G
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:06:34 -0700
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> >Williams is such a wonderful but odd writer, isn't he? I=3D20
> confess to an=3D20
> >intense love-hate relationship with his books.

> Mystical, baffing and worth re-reading...

For those who do like CW, may I recommend (if you do not
already know his work) Tim Powers? The closest living writer
to "carrying on the Williams tradition," except that he is,
in my humble, a better prose stylist than Williams ever=3D20
managed to be. Williams was a fine poet, but in the writing
of fiction ... I wish I knew who first said it, but I've
always agreed with this: "He wrote potboilers, but he=3D20
always boiled an honest pot."=3D20

Anywho, Powers is an astonishing writer ...

--Blattid

--=20

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