Re: Why Time Begins on Opening Day


Subject: Re: Why Time Begins on Opening Day
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 16:31:19 EDT


On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:52:23PM -0400, jason varsoke wrote:
 
> Tim, you must (if you haven't) see _WonderBoys_. Among the movies many
> wonderful little aspects is that the writer who hasn't published a darn
> thing in some time doesn't have writer's block; he has writers diahriahha
> (sp!). His novel is 2621 pages long, amost as long as "Hapworth."

I read the book, right after reading Martin Amis's THE INFORMATION,
about a different kind of failed writer. (Amis is cruel in a way only
Kafka would appreciate. People who read the character's manuscript
develop incurable headaches, physical eye damage, you name it, it
happens!) The Wonder Boys as a book was funny but depressing too. I
mean, I enjoyed it, but the guy was such a loser, I though. (I haven't
seen the movie. Yet.)

--tim

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