It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he … - Leslie Fiedler
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he …
- Leslie Fiedler
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monument… - Leslie Fiedler
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monument…
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans. - Leslie Fiedler
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. - Leslie Fiedler
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. - Leslie Fiedler
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. - Leslie Fiedler
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted … - Leslie Fiedler
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted …
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. - Leslie Fiedler
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always bee… - Leslie Fiedler
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always bee…
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