For over four decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has produced brilliant, penetrating essays and reviews, each one an uncompromising statement of what is good - and what is not - in literature and culture. Something Said collects in a single volume these definitive readings of such major twentieth-century innovators as William Carlos Williams, Edward Dahlberg, Hubert Selby, John Hawkes, Flann O'Brien, William Gaddis, Italo Calvino, John Hawkes, and Robert Creeley, along with critical writings on film, pop culture, and visual art. Featuring seventy-two pieces in all, this new expanded edition includes twenty-five pieces written since the publication of the first edition in 1984, and demonstrates Sorrentino's concern for the craft of writing and the development of an American aesthetic.
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Sorrentino here revises his 1984 collection of essays with the addition of 25 new pieces. Sorrentino waxes mostly about things literary, including good bits on William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, and Flann O'Brien, who have greatly influenced his fiction, but covers a few other areas of the arts as well.
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"I recommend this book to all readers." -- New York Times
"If I were a poet, he's the man I'd want to be reviewed by." -- Washington Post Book World
"If I were a poet, he's the man I'd want to be reviewed by." -- Washington Post Book World
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I wish someone like Sorrentino were writing today in publications like "The New York Times Book Review." Many of the essays in this book are short reviews, of a page or two. A few are slightly longer essays on key figures like Williams and Spicer. What is amazing is how often Sorrentino is right. His style is vigorous, his judgments firm. The line about John Gardner alone is worth the price of admission: "We are struck ... that Mr. Gardner is one of those 'writers who cannot write," a Robert Bly of fiction.
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Something Said, Miss Moore, New York, William Carlos Williams, Jack Spicer, Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Louis Zukofsky, Hubert Selby, Edward Dahlberg, The Third Policeman, Finnegans Wake, Island People, The Journals, Book World, Charles Olson, Flann O'Brien, United States, Bedford Falls, Garcia Márquez, Jonathan Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Lorine Niedecker, Miss Ethel, Natural Numbers New!
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