"What I hate about this notion of regionalism in literature is that there’s no such thing as regional..."

“What I hate about this notion of regionalism in literature is that there’s no such thing as regional literature. There might be literature with a pronounced regional flavor, but it’s either literature on aesthetic grounds or it’s not literature. In the view of those on the Eastern Seaboard, everything that is not amorphous, anything that has any peculiarities of geography, is considered regional fiction, whereas if it’s from New York, it’s evidently supposed to be mainstream. I told my agent that it struck me that the Upper East Side of New York was constitutionally the most provincial place I’d ever been.”

- Jim Harrison
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