--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Steve Novak <Cinefrog@...> wrote:
>
> Perfectly agree...why is he (Goodis) not talked about in the US at
> all...???... and in academia they totally sneer at people like
him...they
> are so entrenched in their little cliques...and mostly involved in self
> congratulation of their politically correct authors...now when it
comes to
> the press (book reviews in major newspapers...and some local ones)
they are,
> as usual intotally devoted to the States, abysmally narrow and totally
> devoted to the status quo, the publishing establishment and all
basically
> devoid of a �different� point of vue/ideology/intellectual
> premisces....etc...
Consider that even the greatest classics we consider here, books like
The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Long Goodbye, The Postman
Always Rings Twice, etc., have not made it to the standard school
curricula... these books are sixty to eighty years old! There is a
sense of stagnation, if you look at what is considered "normal" or
"mainstream". I hear that even Faulkner is being shunned, for fear of
offending somebody when he deals with black people and also because he
is considered too difficult for ordinary people. You know you have
trouble when your greatest novelist is said to be too difficult to
teach in school. Big trouble.
Best,
mrt
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