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Stewart Mitchell
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Reading Sorrentino praise Gaddis is nice, but reading him trashing John Gardner is beautiful.
— Jan 15, 2026 07:00PM
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Stewart Mitchell
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I’m enjoying this most when Sorrentino isn’t writing about poets, not because his criticism isn’t great but rather because I have always struggled to appreciate poetry. Anything even slightly autobiographical is a pleasure; any essay on an author I’ve read and have context for is great.
— Jan 13, 2026 06:57PM
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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
is on page 242 of 266
Students of poetry, you need this volume.
— Apr 25, 2013 08:19AM
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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
is on page 167 of 266
Finally a poet he don't like. Marianne Moore he identifies along with Frost and Sandburg as poets who "are almost wholly ignorant of the reality of living in this country."
— Apr 23, 2013 03:29PM
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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
is on page 141 of 266
Not to forget that Gil was also a poet. I sort of wish he hadn't been. His pieces on poets in this volume will be much more valuable to readers of poetry than they are to me.
— Apr 23, 2013 08:28AM
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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
is on page 122 of 266
A few pieces here on Hubert Selby's fiction. I only know the film of Last Exit, but it's enough to orient myself to what Gil's got to say about Selby; and then there are the goodreads Selby readers you oughta pay some attention to, too.
— Apr 21, 2013 09:41AM
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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
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Readers of fiction should always find themselves reading essays and reviews and interviews by writers of fiction. That's what I say. Gil warms my heart.
— Apr 16, 2013 07:21PM
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