About Sarah Schulman's being an annoying human being -- quite a lot of writers are, either naturally or as a result of being put into strange artificial situations they don't know how to handle. I haven't read Rat Bohemia. Elise and I read People in Trouble together and I later read After Delores, a book I found deeply weird. I don't think I know enough about New York to get it.
This list needs more Mary Renault, particularly The Charioteer, which is her best contemporary book; and also The Last of the Wine. I mean, I've read at least two copies of The Friendly Young Ladies literally to pieces, but at the end, it's weirdly dismissive both of queerness and of women; and its structure is extraordinarily peculiar.
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Date: 2003-11-20 03:08 pm (UTC)All lists are, though, in the end.
About Sarah Schulman's being an annoying human being -- quite a lot of writers are, either naturally or as a result of being put into strange artificial situations they don't know how to handle. I haven't read Rat Bohemia. Elise and I read People in Trouble together and I later read After Delores, a book I found deeply weird. I don't think I know enough about New York to get it.
This list needs more Mary Renault, particularly The Charioteer, which is her best contemporary book; and also The Last of the Wine. I mean, I've read at least two copies of The Friendly Young Ladies literally to pieces, but at the end, it's weirdly dismissive both of queerness and of women; and its structure is extraordinarily peculiar.
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