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From: "Mary Krimmel" <mary@krimmel.net>
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> Is Glenn Kenny serious? The Atlantic doesn't need me to defend it, but
> that's because it isn't printing bilge. It printed a mostly informative,
if
> also rather laudatory, review of a "New and Notable" book, along with
eight
> other short reviews. In the same current issue it also reviews at greater
> length five other books..
>
> A long time enjoyer of Nabokov's work and some of the other authors
> and works that Peck mentions (Barth, Faulkner, Ulysses), I am eager to
read
> Hatchet Jobs. I suppose that few readers would agree with Peck in all of
> his dislikes, but that many would agree with some. I could hardly read and
> could not enjoy any Thomas Pynchon book I tried, ditto for DeLillo, whom I
> intend to try once more. (Barthelme and Gaddis I haven't tried.)
>
> Reviews are intended to spark interest in their subjects. This one
> succeeded with me and with Glenn Kenny, at least.
>
> Mary Krimmel
>
> >From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
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> > > Hard to believe The Atlantic is printing such bilgeâ?"the revenge of
the
> > > stupid really has infected almost every branch of literary discourse.
> > >
> > > GK
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From: "Mary Krimmel" <mary@krimmel.net>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (30
lines) ------------------
> Is Glenn Kenny serious? The Atlantic doesn't need me to defend it, but
> that's because it isn't printing bilge. It printed a mostly informative,
if
> also rather laudatory, review of a "New and Notable" book, along with
eight
> other short reviews. In the same current issue it also reviews at greater
> length five other books..
>
> A long time enjoyer of Nabokov's work and some of the other authors
> and works that Peck mentions (Barth, Faulkner, Ulysses), I am eager to
read
> Hatchet Jobs. I suppose that few readers would agree with Peck in all of
> his dislikes, but that many would agree with some. I could hardly read and
> could not enjoy any Thomas Pynchon book I tried, ditto for DeLillo, whom I
> intend to try once more. (Barthelme and Gaddis I haven't tried.)
>
> Reviews are intended to spark interest in their subjects. This one
> succeeded with me and with Glenn Kenny, at least.
>
> Mary Krimmel
>
> >From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
> >.>
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (37
> >lines) ------------------
> > > Hard to believe The Atlantic is printing such bilgeâ?"the revenge of
the
> > > stupid really has infected almost every branch of literary discourse.
> > >
> > > GK
>
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