tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576804529126714608.post5111752899032875601..comments2024-01-31T13:51:35.011-05:00Comments on ABC OF READING: HOW TO SURVIVE THE POLITICAL MOMENT AND THE GOLD LINING OF THE FRANZEN BOOTYThomas McGoniglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05262994278231611143noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576804529126714608.post-22941282506900386012010-09-17T15:00:37.823-04:002010-09-17T15:00:37.823-04:00If you send your address to editor(at)lettersjourn...If you send your address to editor(at)lettersjournal.org, I can put one in the mail to you on Monday.dhttp://www.lettersjournal.org/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576804529126714608.post-2897881917576060112010-09-16T23:20:23.547-04:002010-09-16T23:20:23.547-04:00Please doPlease doThomas McGoniglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05262994278231611143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576804529126714608.post-87959266768257024472010-09-16T18:53:50.086-04:002010-09-16T18:53:50.086-04:00Hello. I share many of your thoughts about books ...Hello. I share many of your thoughts about books and especially appreciated your brief description of picking up an ARC for Bolano's 2666.<br /><br />May I mail you the new issue of my journal?dhttp://www.lettersjournal.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576804529126714608.post-62018353741556580542010-09-13T21:02:17.611-04:002010-09-13T21:02:17.611-04:00What a stunningly insightful blog. Let's hope ...What a stunningly insightful blog. Let's hope that mega successes like Franzen's books do result in a financial benefit to publishers who will then perhaps publish something more daring. Yes, Ungaretti and Montale!! But as you have so often written, Americans are so unengaged with foreign writers (except and until they win a major prize). Mencken--how wonderful, and your samples preserve his conversational style and his skepticism. What I remember of his writings is his gusto. Mencken is truly a forgotten writer worthy of rediscovery. Is it getting time for the Library of America to think about someone like Joseph Hergesheimer? What about the criticism of George Jean Nathan? But suggestions are not what you asked for. Again, thank you for your eclecticism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576804529126714608.post-3600600125911734262010-09-13T16:43:20.971-04:002010-09-13T16:43:20.971-04:00There is a very good blog about the Mencken:http:/...There is a very good blog about the Mencken:http://blog.loa.org/2010/08/h-l-mencken-and-sara-haardt-americas.htmlThomas McGoniglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05262994278231611143noreply@blogger.com