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...sometimes hard to follow the big picture. Halberstam also tends to repeat what he has said, particularly in the life histories of his characters. When Halberstam tells the same story for the third time, it almost seems as if he doesn’t trust the reader to remember what he said before...
...wonders whether literary celebritydom and the inherent respectability of her subject matter have made her forget her responsibility to spice her writing stylistically to match its substance. And it’s too bad that she, who so steadfastly has stuck to writing about things a discerning reader will care about, seems to feel restrained in other regards as well...
...expression. I don’t get a picture and 20 minutes to explain my full views. I fear that connotations will either distract from my opinions, or detract by adding unintended meaning to my words, as has already happened. The latter fear is much more threatening, because the reader assumes a leftist feminist political agenda that doesn’t really exist...
Regrettably, I don’t have any real options, aside from trusting the reader, waiting for feminism to come back in vogue and re-applying for a Crimson column so you can see what I look like and come talk to me. And every once in a while, I’ll just have to take the time re-explain myself...
...don’t know if there’s an ideal world. Already, people out there seem to understand what goes on in the poems. I’m always stunned when somebody occasionally writes me a note about something, and I realize that there are really readers out there who can read between the lines, who have as much a gift for being readers as people have for being writers. And beyond that, there is, I suppose, some kind of ideal reader who understands you more than you do. I had a friend who used to say love...