Re: Richard Ford
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:55:46 -0400
At 9:40 AM -0400 on 8/24/99, Will wrote:
> Of authors currently publishing fiction today, I think Ford is
>among the
> very best. I love being in his books because his "forty something"
> narration seems intelligent and cogent to this almost 47 year old
>reader.
> When I read Ford, I sense an intelligent, fair mind guiding mine.
... and then:
> BTW, Ford's most recent book, _Women with Men_ contains 3 longish
>short
> stories and may be of interest to bananafish because of the use of
>length
> in his "short stories."
Interestingly, one of Hemingway's well-regarded collections (his
second, I think) was "Men Without Women," and I wonder how long and
hard Ford thought about that one, if at all. I mention this with the
ellipsis above because, Will, I recall you not being a
Hemingway-hater and wondered if this parallelism in the titles came
to mind when you mentioned Ford's most recent book.
--tim