Wash ,'Serenity'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
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.
... nobody dies in fantasy novels? Seriously?
Aw, man, I've been reading them wrong.
... nobody dies in fantasy novels? Seriously?
G.R.R.M. has been doin' it wrong this whole time....
G.R.R. Martin just started chuckling, and he doesn't know why.
Who is Russell Banks and why should I care what he thinks?
Here is me. Laughing. Laughing. Oh Russell Banks. You moron.
Russell Banks is a Serious Writer of Literary Fiction.
I had him as a writing teacher one semester. I rather got the idea he wanted to be Raymond Carver.
He does. I mean, I even like his work(though I'm not sure what he means in the quote) but he is a total Carver worshipper. And I wish he would write one thing that didn't make me feel like crying in my beer and shit.