tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post112100958705265436..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: The Literary PastKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1121626498352370292005-07-17T11:54:00.000-07:002005-07-17T11:54:00.000-07:00Charles Baxter is an outstanding writer (The Feast...Charles Baxter is an outstanding writer (The Feast of Love, his Saul and Patsy stories) and perceptive literary critic (see Burning Down the House). Your insults are unwarrented.Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01498256770392063750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1121090064575872292005-07-11T06:54:00.000-07:002005-07-11T06:54:00.000-07:00Striking to me is the way old fashioned mags turn ...Striking to me is the way old fashioned mags turn themselves into deliberate anachronisms.<BR/>I don't think anyone would deny that writers like Baxter and Oates haven't had anything new to say in many decades. (If they ever had.)<BR/>The philosophy must be based on the Atlantic's readership-- upper-bourgeois folks who haven't noticed the world has changed over the past thirty years.<BR/>They don't want to admit that literature has changed and IS changing.<BR/>Sad anachronisms.<BR/>(If they held their own reading they'd have to bring Oates and Baxter in with walkers. Both are on artistic life support. The question is how long venues like the Atlantic keep such outdated artists going-- minimally, dragging literature further toward irrelevance and lethargy. Isn't it time to pull the plug on them and be done with it?)King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.com