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Leslie Fiedler


American
March 8, 1917
Critic
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I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.


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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.


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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
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The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
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Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
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Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
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Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
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Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
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