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Article: Quinn's Book.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 19, 1988
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Quinn's Book
YOU COULD say that William Kennedy is just being perverse. Perversely out of date, if you happen to think like the student in a Johns Hopkins seminar who asked Mr. Kennedy why he didn't write "like a minimalist, like present-day authors such as Raymond Carver..." Or perversely unfeeling, if you are of a mind with another student, who asked, in reference to the 1930s setting of Ironweed, why Mr. Kennedy didn't write about the plight of the homeless today? To the first naive question, Kennedy replied that he could not write "like a minimalist" because he was not one, responding rather to the influence of Faulkner and Joyce and believing that ...
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