From: jones
Category: Amis
Date: 9/7/99
Time: 7:04:54 AM
Remote Name: 130.159.248.35
Jim, literature is not in a woeful state, literature like any other artform is in pretty much the same state it always is; there's a few neeedles of exellence buried in a haystack of mediocrity, but then you kind of said that yourself anyway:
Literature is in a woeful state at present...all these books which encourage women, and men (in the case of Hornby's latest) to fester and wallow in their rot, in their insecurities and their problems. Nasty! Thank God for Don DeLillo who stunningly explodes all that, revealing the decay and darkness at the heart of the lifestyles Hornby and his cohorts sickeningly rhapsodise about.