<![CDATA[A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose]]>

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The funny and devastating debunking of high "literary" prose stylists, including Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, and Cormac McCarthy, that caused a literary furor.

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