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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Nathan Cain"
<IndieCrime@...> wrote:
>
> I'll believe people want difficult, original fiction
when I start
> seeing people reading William S. Burroughs and Steve
Erickson at the
> beach. Until then, I'm not holding my
breath.
Or the runaway commercial success of the books by the late
great William Gaddis... and look at the number of shiny,
unread copies of Pynchon's novels at second-hand stores and
yard sales. In fact, I am not even sure that Faulkner was
ever much read. These are great but difficult authors. More
recently, I am having trouble understanding the
bestsellingness of Cormac McCarthy, who's not easy, either.
Maybe many more people buy him than read him.
Best,
mrt
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