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Leslie Fiedler
American
Critic
Born:
Mar 8
,
1917
Died:
Jan 29
,
2003
American
He
Me
People
Think
You
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When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
Leslie Fiedler
People
Will
King
Remembering
Stephen King
Still
Forgotten
Us
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
Leslie Fiedler
Class
Culture
Clothes
Distinction
Wipe
Ready-Made
American
Blue
Blue Jeans
American Culture
Want
Jeans
Coca-Cola
Things
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
Leslie Fiedler
Poet
Like
Know
Read
Anybody
Middle
Wanting
Centuries
Century
Next
Should
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
Leslie Fiedler
Art
Good
History
You
Science
Criticism
Way
Read
Judged
Should
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.
Leslie Fiedler
Saying
You
Met
France
Could
He
Know
Talk
Him
Because
Person
Whether
Agree
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
Leslie Fiedler
Thought
Frail
Married
Stein
He
Almost
Gertrude Stein
Really
Hemingway
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.
Leslie Fiedler
Books
Memoir
Area
He
Between
Protagonist
Wrote
Calls
His
Often
Novel
Novels
Henry
Miller
Gray
Gray Area
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
Leslie Fiedler
Good
Will
Poet
Despite
Those
Bad
Admire
Seems
Poems
Fact
He
Know
Least
Being
Last
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
Leslie Fiedler
You
Writing
Enemies
Gave
One Friend
Make
Because
Friend
Up
I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.
Leslie Fiedler
Better
Liked
Talk
Heard
Even
Her
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
Leslie Fiedler
Sex
Become
Think
Monumental
Memoir
About
Had
He
Wrote
Force
Because
Nonfiction
Huge
Huge Influence
American
Influence
Literature
Novel
Henry
Publishing
Miller
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
Leslie Fiedler
Funny
Me
Think
Funny Thing
Way
Through
Wake
Essays
Happened
Pattern
Thing
I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
Leslie Fiedler
Indian
Fond
Wrestling
Arm
Used
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
Leslie Fiedler
Man
Writing
Old
Paper
Signature
About
More
Writer
Never
Had
He
Put
Been
His
Years
Than
James
Anything
Who
Cooper
Here
I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
Leslie Fiedler
Time
Book
Tough
First
Pay
Way
Complex
More
Tough Time
Had
He
Liked
Him
Read
Got
Off
Very
Much
Really
Less
Each
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
Leslie Fiedler
Say
Pick
Wrong
New
Look
Edition
Truly
Huckleberry
Huckleberry Finn
End
Up
Page
Yours
Last
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
Leslie Fiedler
Thought
Writer
He
Comic
Still
Kafka
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
Leslie Fiedler
Better
Black
Become
Books
Faulkner
He
Like
She
Female
Lot
Clone
Did
Authors
Much
Really
Early
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
Leslie Fiedler
Good
Think
Imitate
Easy
Carver
More
More And More
Writer
He
Raymond
Appreciated
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
Leslie Fiedler
Black
Situation
Changed
Finally
American
Realized
The middlebrow, I hate.
Leslie Fiedler
Hate
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Leslie Fiedler
Art
Thinking
Way
Alive
Stays
About
Only
Does
Always
Been
Lot
Die
Dying
Really
Pop
Pop Art
Novel
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