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Sex and Language
“Within the last four years, D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the two Tropics of Henry Miller have at last been allowed to circulate freely. Both writers use the so-called ‘obscene’ words extensively, and the publicity given to the Lady Chatterley case, as well as the character . . .” read more
Scott Fitzgerald
“The best writing of most great novelists seems their natural level, and their worst writing an unfortunate lapse. With Fitzgerald it is just the opposite: when one considers the bulk of his work, he seems to be a naturally bad writer who miraculously produced two great novels. Certain . . .” read more
'Franny and Zooey' and J.D.Salinger
“In Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes, one of the stories from For Esmé with Love and Squalor, Arthur describes himself as ‘a stupid, fouled-up, twentieth-century son of a bitch’. This has been J. D. Salinger’s constant estimate of how people live in modern America. It is possible, . . .” read more