Re: Richard Ford
William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:45:09 -0400 (EDT)
Ahh, Buddy, you give me too much credit! I never made the direct allusion
until you helped out my poor mind...I do sense a Hemingway link to Ford's
work though I'm not sure why...can you say more? will
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Tim O'Connor wrote:
> 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
>
>