If There is a Reason for a Novelist
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Seth Wieck | August 21, 2021
If there is a reason for the existence for the novelist on earth it is this: to show the element which holds out against God in the highest and noblest characters–the innermost evils and dissimulations; and also to light up the secret source of sanctity in creatures who seem to us to have failed. “God […]
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Harold Bloom on the Future of the Novel
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Seth Wieck | September 23, 2011
INTERVIEWER: What direction do you see the form taking? BLOOM: I would suppose that in America we are leaning more and more towards terrible millennial visions. I would even expect a religious dimension, a satiric dimension, an even more apocalyptic dimension than we have been accustomed to. I would expect the mode of fantasy to […]
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Seth Wieck | July 26, 2010
An excerpt from novel in progress. Not sure if this will make it.
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