Word: readers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anthropomorphizing the machine and denaturing the operator have the intended < effect, and there is no doubt that Carolyn Chute writes for effect. Her first novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, socked the reader with a collection of country characters that might have escaped the pages of another resident Maine novelist, Stephen King, who does not write nearly so well as Chute but plots better...
Novelist Cynthia Ozick, at Bryn Mawr College, Pa.: "In the possession of a heritage, there are no princes and no paupers. Every reader is a potential citizen of influence with a claim on patrimony and on the widest and most inclusive recesses of the culture...
...months since its winter publication, the novel has insinuated itself into the literature of the 1980s. His cadence, his language, his rhythm--all executed with seeming ease, no need for artistry here, everything is natural--seduce the reader. There is no difference, though, from his earlier works, Wolfe's acclaimers...
...great reader of things that other people don't read," Esquire's Eisenberg says, adding that Wolfe periodically peruses a variety of trade journals. "As a result, he knows many arcane things...
People who know me now probably won't believethis. But, dear reader, you're just going to haveto trust me on this one. In high school my heartbled and my knee jerked with the best of them. InCrimson editorial debates, on the otherhand, I was from the start, against my desires orintentions, cast on the right. I've developed areputation in Crimson circles, at least, asan incipient neo-conservative. This I deny, and ifany of you wish to talk about it, you know whereto reach...