<<I just finished an Edmund Wilson essay about why
people read detective stories, and he mentions that he's sure
the Ring Lardner will be read far beyond his time, and I was
laughing to myself thinking how Edmund had gotten that one
wrong.>>
He didn't get it wrong. Lardner is in the pantheon of
perennial American classics. He is the Richard Prather of
noncrimestream fiction (they hem us in, we push them
out).
Regards,
MrT
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right
word is the difference between lightning and the lightning
bug." Mark Twain
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