The New York Times? That's nice and prominent. Has anything else by Delany
ever been reviewed in the NYT? I vaguely recall 'Times Square Red, Times
Square Blue' was but I'm not sure.
That said, starting a review of a book that takes a 20th century poet as
its subject with Wordsworth's hoary line about 'unacknowledged
legislators' either has an irony that eludes me or is just not very useful
as a beginning. And of course I disagree with '...doesn't always make for
riveting reading', as Delany's prose ensures that it DOES; further, I
disagree with the lurking idea behind those lines that experience must
turn in to epiphanies in fiction -- which again, seems like a strange tack
to take in a review. I'm not sure it's useful or interesting to criticize
a book of modern fiction on the basis that nothing in particular happens
in the first section of the book.
But hey, any publicity...
--Zvi
> Here's a link to a review that appears in the 8/9/07 NY Times:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Dreisinger-t.html?_r=1&ref=review&oref=slogin
>
> And here's a link to a review written by yours truly which appears in
> the more humble environs of a student newspaper at the CUNY Graduate
> Center.
> http://www.gcadvocate.org/index.php?action=view&id=176
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