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In Reply to: Programmes ? posted by Bambi B on October 17, 2005 at 06:59:06:
..I find that americans are MUCH better at writing american literature than copying english writers - it just comes out like those fake tudor houses that just look so wrong!
I'm thinking of writer's like Malcolm Cowley's one-off 'Under The Volcano' and latterly the very fine 'Already Dead' by Dennis Johnson, Brett Easton Ellis is very american writing...Paul Aster, too some great stuff.
Do yo have any modern american favorites?
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MALCOLM LOWRY wrote UNDER THE VOLCANO and is english. PAUL AUSTER is alot more popular in europe than in america i like his work also.rhu
...you're right, of course.
Hart Crane married Peggy Cowley! lol!
Jeff Starrs,One of the problems of an Englsih education is that the English are some of the most ethnocentric cultures anywhere- the French are good competition, but in the UK, you only hear Walton, Elgar, Purcell, Handel, Britten, etc, on BBC3 and see Chaucer, Bacon, Shakepeare, Byron, and Wodehouse on the page.
I've not read much fiction or poetry since college days- I like biography and history more, and since in England there was no real acknowledgment of American literature, I really don't know the Americans except bits from the old school: Poe, Emerson, Whitman, Frost, and etc.
I did like very much recently the series of translations by Colman Barks of the work of the 13th Centurty Sufi poet Rumi. That Barks spent so much time creating such sympathetic English versions at the expense of his own original work is very impressive.
Cheers,
Bambi B
...I'm very happy to have discovered american literature early on.
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