Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Attention Bloggerati ...

... Bryan Appleyard has a question: Marilynne Robinson: the Greatest Living Novelist? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I can't say myself, because I haven't read Robinson.

2 comments:

  1. Frank, she is magnificent but I wouldn't use that epithet for anyone.

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  2. Anonymous9:03 PM

    Many years ago Ted Kooser gave me a copy of _Housekeeping_ and told me Robinson was the greatest novelist most people had never heard of. Obviously, she has a poetic quality to her writing -- among other charms -- so I'm not surprised to see that Mr. Appleyard likes her too. And obviously she's not prolific -- two novels in twenty years does not a mega-author make.

    _Gilead_ is a book I'm going to have to read .... just as soon as I can get clear of the twenty others I *have* to read for one project or another.

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