The Novel Is Always Pop Art, And

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.

Raymond Carver Is Good. I Think He'll Be Appreciated More And More. He's An Easy Writer To Imitate.

Jane Austen Is At The End Of The Line That Begins With Samuel Richardson, Which Takes Wonder And Magic Out Of The Novel, Treats Not The Past But The Present.

Unless Criticism Refuses To Take Itself Quite So Seriously Or At Least To Permit Its Readers Not To, It Will Inevitably Continue To Reflect The Finicky Canons Of The Genteel Tradition And The Depressing Pieties Of The Culture Religion Of Modernism.

My Assignment Is What Every Writer's Assignment Is: Tell The Truth Of His Own Time.