Jason:
"Hmm, re Elmore Leonard, I don't see how he can't be
considered a major innovator. I actually see him as THE major
innovator of the past thirty years."
But don't you think that's past tense, emphasis on the first
half of that thirty years? The way I see it, when other
writers are compared to him in blurbs -- "the new Elmore
Leonard" -- and we think of a Leonard-type book, he has
become part of the academy. Certainly, he has been
influential, and continues to be, but he is no longer
innovating, but continuing to practicing his craft (not using
it in a non-art sense).
Mark
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