In subsequent novels, he hooked me with the idea and then lost me in the execution. I liked his first one, The Intuitionist, best, but then that's how it goes with most writers. He looks the way I'd like to look.Īnd, oh yeah, he writes good books. Are you quite so universally admired? Were you proclaimed a genius by the folks at MacArthur before you turned 35? Besides, have you ever seen Colson Whitehead? He looks the way many of us would like our 21st-century American novelists to look: lean and dark. If you suspect I'm jealous of Whitehead, I am these words should be printed in green. Even when heavyweights criticize his work, they also go to great lengths to assure their readers that they very much dig the author.
I mean editors at and reviewers at Try to find a bad review. I mean aging former English majors who wear bookish specs. Since we're talking literary fiction here, let it be understood that when I say everybody, I mean hardly anyone.
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