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On Dostoevsky + I missed the scare quotes around intellectual but, nonetheless, even with such, I think it's a mischaracterization and the more I thought of it the stranger I found it. What makes it particularly odd is that Dostoevsky's work were serialized, thus far from what is considered...

Final Words on Gatsby! GG is clearly a "well written' novel and I found it interesting; your points about it are persuasive and clearly convey your sense of the book. I simply don't think it accords the kind of mania which it has garnered, which seems due in part to it having been canonized...

I hardly think writing or any art is as simple as you claim, Slimedog. It's hardly that accidental, and what comes "naturally' is far from natural in some organic sense which people find purer than other modes of creation - the age old dispute about conscious versus unconscious writing, of...

Intellectual writers? Rubyred, you'd really call Dostoevsky and Tolstoy (I haven't read Nabokov) "intellectual writers"? It is a serious mischaracterization. Yes, they are studied by 'intellectuals' or academics, but that hardly makes them intellectual writers; their use of language is...

It's about vision I hardly attacked anyone for not having the same literary taste as I, but what's more peculiar is how it's even possible to speak of a homogenous literary tendency when the only author I mentioned in my post was Dostoevski? I'm not interested in petty reactions, such as...

While many of the writers mentioned in this post are certainly overrated (Salinger has to be the most overrated one in the history of literature (he's about as diverse and productive as a sloth), with Fitzgerald close behind, choking on his dreams of fame), it seems like Bukowski is an excuse...