The Loneliness of the Old White Male

[likethebeer]

Nice take down of a man named David Gilmour - who is "a novelist and a broadcaster; he teaches a few classes at Victoria College; and he makes extremely blinkered statements about literature" - and a nice discussion of literature professors, and what they try to do.http://www.

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Toni Morrison

[likethebeer]

Maybe (I should read her first before writing that, though).

Re: Toni Morrison

[likethebeer]

Well, I'm interested in keeping hold of this copy, so....

[likethebeer]

Oh, I didn't look at what he was saying and yelled, "There are no women!" Just, "look at the larger picture of literature." I thought that's what the writer of the piece was saying, too.

should have specified

[likethebeer]

Oh, your sad lack of link-takeoff. I hope it gets better some time.