unearths some literary gems.
Snippets from some Gore Vidal essays:
[From "American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction." Just look at the percentage of "barth-" in this passage!]
Barthes has also had a significant (or signifying) effect on a number of American writers, among them Mr. Donald Barthelme. Two years ago Mr. Barthelme was quoted as saying that the only American worth reading are John Barth, Grace Paley, William Gass, and Thomas Pynchon.
[Ditto]
Twice, by the way, I have used the word "thing" in this paragraph. I grow suspicious...of all things and their shadows, words.
[from "Why I Am Eight Years Younger Than Anthony Burgess"--ha!]
Under another name, Burgess had reviewed one of his own books....I was delighted....Shouldn't there be in all of England at least one review written by someone who had actually read the book?
[from "Who Makes the Movies?"]
For every Joe Mankiewicz or Preston Sturges there are a dozen Xs and Ys, not to mention the depressing Z.
[Attached: from "The Oz Books"]
