Novelist Frederick Busch has died -- at age64, much too soon. Here's an obit. "I'd like to be remembered as a really honest, minor writer of the 20th century," he once said. He may well do better than that.
That's a very modest comment of Busch's. I just read the opposite on Galley Cat: The World according to Kate. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/the_world_according_to_kate_33013.asp
Taken from the Galley Cat posting, these are a couple of the comments that this author apparently made about herself:
- "I'm not just another writer. I don't think people understand my relationship with this city, and they don't understand what I've achieved."
- "There is not another woman writer in Southern California who sits between Bellow and Conrad next to Hemingway and Kafka. I have the most literary stature, certainly, of any woman in Southern California."
I won't post her surname as I am sure she is so famous that you'll know her without. (I'd never heard of her before today.)
That's a very modest comment of Busch's. I just read the opposite on Galley Cat: The World according to Kate.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/the_world_according_to_kate_33013.asp
Taken from the Galley Cat posting, these are a couple of the comments that this author apparently made about herself:
- "I'm not just another writer. I don't think people understand my relationship with this city, and they don't understand what I've achieved."
- "There is not another woman writer in Southern California who sits between Bellow and Conrad next to Hemingway and Kafka. I have the most literary stature, certainly, of any woman in Southern California."
I won't post her surname as I am sure she is so famous that you'll know her without. (I'd never heard of her before today.)