tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post111370116078048203..comments2024-03-28T05:13:13.921-04:00Comments on Books, Inq. — The Epilogue: Whereabouts ...Frank Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-1113750214700439852005-04-17T11:03:00.000-04:002005-04-17T11:03:00.000-04:00I think, Tono, that we have already entered a more...I think, Tono, that we have already entered a more democratic era with regard to reading and publishing. Common sense tells you that it just can't be that the only books worth reading are the ones major commercial publishers choose to bet their money on. It's worth remembering that if in, say, 1875, you had got together all the leading literary scholars and critics in the US and asked them to name the two most important poets writing in America at the time, none would have picked Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson.Frank Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-1113745976818548442005-04-17T09:52:00.000-04:002005-04-17T09:52:00.000-04:00Dear Frank:I applaude your decision to reach beyon...Dear Frank:<BR/><BR/>I applaude your decision to reach beyond the grasp of the corporate decision makers to embrace the undermined and the neglected all the way to South Street. And I highly appreciate your in depth, bearing your soul as a newspaper writer, analysis of what it's like to be in your shoes. I wouldn't want it, honestly. Because I can only say good things about other peoples' creative endeavors, bar none. Yet, you come upon trash and garbage. But of what variety? Poorly spelled. Poorly edited. Poorly thought out and expressed. And then absolutely dumb stuff.<BR/>Your analysis of what you do is somewhat breathtaking, because I feel that I have in a way been a source for this particular angst.<BR/>As I've indicated previously, this forum is constrictive to the nth degree. Little boxes to write in, etc. <BR/>Yes, be an advocate for reading. I'm sending you two books now. Read, dude, and please, let's be friends and read each other.<BR/><BR/>I love what you're doing here. Quite serendipitous that we met. I don't remember quite how I got your drift . . . .<BR/><BR/>TONO RONDONEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com