There are plenty of holes in the article, suggesting that the writer should have been more diligent during research, even though article length limited what could have been written. A good place to start would have been Alfred Kazin's GOD AND THE AMERICAN WRITER, even though the article's author seems more interested in the U.K. (in spite of a glowing endorsement of Flannery O'Connor). And why the seeming emphasis on Catholicism and the Anglican Church, as if other Christian denominations count for little in the history of literature.
The writer wouldn't have had to go far to find novelist Ron Hansen, author of "Mariette in Ecstasy," or poet Dana Gioia, this year's winner of the Laetare medal.
And I didn't even have to leave California to think of those.
There are plenty of holes in the article, suggesting that the writer should have been more diligent during research, even though article length limited what could have been written. A good place to start would have been Alfred Kazin's GOD AND THE AMERICAN WRITER, even though the article's author seems more interested in the U.K. (in spite of a glowing endorsement of Flannery O'Connor). And why the seeming emphasis on Catholicism and the Anglican Church, as if other Christian denominations count for little in the history of literature.
ReplyDeleteDitto to the above.
ReplyDeleteThe writer wouldn't have had to go far to find novelist Ron Hansen, author of "Mariette in Ecstasy," or poet Dana Gioia, this year's winner of the Laetare medal.
And I didn't even have to leave California to think of those.