RARA-AVIS: a conspiracy of two critics?

Frederick Zackel (fzackel@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
Sat, 21 Feb 1998 16:20:44 -0500 (EST) Sorry I'm a tad late jumping on this thread.

I've been laughing myself silly for the last 48-odd hours over it. A
conspiracy of two critics (Leonard of the NYTBR) and Raymond solokov (?)
(from Newsweek) sat together and hatched Ross Macdonald's career?

Is that it?

Is that how it happens?

Migawd! They hoodwinked America into reading an author and paying
attention to what he was trying to do!!!!

Wahl, slap mah tongue and call me Lulu!

Damn! Yah mean that's all Ah gotta do--find two critics to squat together
and hatch the plot/PLOT--so's Ah kin become an "author worth noticing"?
After only--what?--twenty novels that never paid squat?

And I s'pose you believe JFK committed suicide!

And there is evidence of more conspiracy, too. Why, I believe that
Newsweek fellow was the same fellow who "discovered" Elmore Leonard and
made him the cover of Newsweek for "Glitz" back in 1985(?). And, heck,
Elmore Leonard had only been writing since 1950. (Newcomer!)

Enough nonsense. I can only dream that some critic (not even two!) would
decide my works would be worth bringing to the public's attention.

Frederick Zackel

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