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Consuela - Dec 30, 2013 3:40:11 pm PST #21795 of 28670
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I was clearing out my bookshelf, making room, and found my copy of Molly Gloss' The Hearts of Horses. So I reread it.

And it's just as wonderful as the first time through. What a remarkable, flexible, writer she is. I'm sad to see that she seems to have published no novels since then (2008), although I think she's got some stories out.

Ginger - Jan 03, 2014 9:26:31 am PST #21796 of 28670
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Russell Banks comes across as a pompous twit in this NYT interview: [link]

Particularly laughable:

And how would you describe the kinds of books you steer clear of?

Anything described by the author or publisher as fantasy, which to me says, “Don’t worry, Reader, Death will be absent here.” In his brief introduction to “Slow Learner,” Thomas Pynchon says he takes serious writing to be that in which Death is present. I agree.

Consuela - Jan 03, 2014 9:28:18 am PST #21797 of 28670
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

... nobody dies in fantasy novels? Seriously?

Steph L. - Jan 03, 2014 9:29:19 am PST #21798 of 28670
That which does not kill you should RUN

Aw, man, I've been reading them wrong.

juliana - Jan 03, 2014 9:30:22 am PST #21799 of 28670
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

... nobody dies in fantasy novels? Seriously?

G.R.R.M. has been doin' it wrong this whole time....

Calli - Jan 03, 2014 9:31:00 am PST #21800 of 28670
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

G.R.R. Martin just started chuckling, and he doesn't know why.

Jessica - Jan 03, 2014 9:34:17 am PST #21801 of 28670
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Who is Russell Banks and why should I care what he thinks?

hippocampus - Jan 03, 2014 9:59:36 am PST #21802 of 28670
not your mom's socks.

Here is me. Laughing. Laughing. Oh Russell Banks. You moron.

Ginger - Jan 03, 2014 11:47:29 am PST #21803 of 28670
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Russell Banks is a Serious Writer of Literary Fiction.

Anne W. - Jan 03, 2014 11:48:29 am PST #21804 of 28670
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I had him as a writing teacher one semester. I rather got the idea he wanted to be Raymond Carver.

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