![]() ![]() Told the rest of us in the fiction trade to either do deep-dish reportage on members of little groups, right down to the name of the manufacturers of the shoes they wore, or take up macrame. We hastened on to gossip about Salman Rushdie and so forth.Īfterward, though, as I sat alone in my room at Brown's Hotel, I marveled that none of us had celebrated a story that took place in the world at large rather than in a stratified and codified little society. Majority went for "Anna Karenina." Anna had glamour, Emma didn't. "What is the best novel ever written?" I nominated "Madame Bovary." A IN London in October, at a dinner party in the home of the publisher Tom Maschler, head of Jonathan Cape, our host asked a question that was primitive but deep. December 9, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition - Finalīy Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut's most recent book is his novel "Hocus Pocus."īy Robert A. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |