Tag: Salman Rushdie
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Novels vs. Poetry
I don’t mean that title seriously — hierarchies trouble me. I don’t understand why it’s necessary to declare one thing better, or more essential, than another. Why, when one discusses one’s preference for, say, Anne Sexton over Sylvia Plath, it’s done in a manner that disparages Plath’s craft. This is not about “compare & contrast.”…
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Salman Rushdie.
I don’t generally post about fiction because I think there are enough people writing about it, and my first love is poetry. But I have to make an exception: I’m about 20 pages from finishing Salman Rushdie’s new novel, The Enchantress of Florence, and had to put it down because I want to finish it…
Marie Gauthier 