false 17 475 475 true 5722392 read 0 true 401496 currently-reading 0 true 401495 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/247595-literature-i-loathe-what-is-beauty-why-do-we-make-art Joe made a comment in the Constant Reader group:

Dvora wrote: "Ruth (and Sherry) I appreciate your posts. When I first moved to Barcelona, I used to write long email to many of my friends, telling them all about the neighborhood, the city, the way of life as ..."

Dvora,, your tale is an interesting way for writers to write. I wrote e mails to my former high school girl friend after having found her here on the net. I wrote about 100 of them, printed them,thinking they would be part of an autobio some day but then I was afraid my wife,kids would read them. I threw them in a trash barrel at MacDonalds. There was nothing really sinful in them I just felt like I was committing adultery while writing to her. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/255321-john-cheever-john-irving-russo Joe made a comment in the Constant Reader group:

Joe wrote: "
I just read all of Cheever s short stories ,read THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL years ago and am now reading THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE. I usually do things backwards for SCANDAL was part 2 of CHRONICLE. While ..."
Just as I begin to think of Cheever as a literary writer I run into Leandar s journal starting on page 97 of THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE. I guess this is where Cheever gets his title. Leandar tells readers that this writer will put-punctuation,preps,etc at the end of the writing and the reader can insert them in his mind while reading. Then Leandar writes many short hard to understand sentences which become interesting and funny as the chronicle moves along. It s like an experiment in writing which I 'loathed' while trying to read James Joyce. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80538225 to: The Stories of John Cheever (Paperback) by John Cheever
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/246627-is-russo-literary Joe made a comment in the Constant Reader group:

Sarah wrote: "Thanks, Gail. I had not heard the Lovesy recommendation. I put all of them on my TBR list.

Lynn, sorry to incorrectly refer to you--I have been reading so many back threads that I have lost tr..."
sorry, but i wouldn t put tv writers into the 'literary' group. it s not that they aren t good writers, it s that they don t have time to work on their stories. fitzgerald,faulkner and others wrote for movies inorder to make extra money. neither liked the work nor did very well. richard russo has written some movie stories as well as tv.



]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/241572-literary-writers Joe made a comment in the Constant Reader group:


aj, thanks for the comments and thanks for all the comments from these very intelligent readers. i don t like richard ford but i may try thomas mcguane. today, i am reading of thanksgiving in a dysfunctional family in richard s NOBODY S FOOL. it must go on for 40 pages-funny,sad, real people. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/242170-the-digested-reader Joe made a comment in the Constant Reader group:


readers, for the 2nd time in one month i found a book for $1 which hit the spot. i am not cheap,only poor. THE DIGESTED READER,06 by john grace. john gives book reviews of famous new books and mocks and makes fun of them. i was tired of too long contemporary books,and sick of serial killers. i was having a hard time chosing contemporary fiction so john s book was ,is just right for my reading feelings at the moment. i had gotten to the point of only reading short stories lately-john cheever-love his stories-alice munro-like many of her stories. horray for john grace. the first hit the spot $1 book was ALFRED KAZIN S AMERICA..it was a bit too sophisticated for my amateur english major skills. thanks..joe ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/26210.Salon_des_Refus_s Joe joined the Salon des Refusés group. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77226733 to: High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never (Paperback) by Barbara Kingsolver
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