Re: The business of subjects (Administrative Trivia)


Subject: Re: The business of subjects (Administrative Trivia)
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 11:58:35 EDT


Yeah, Tim, that's true...and it esp. depends upon the individual character of the
editor/writer in question. I think you're dead on about Salinger.

Jim

Tim O'Connor wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:15:11AM -0400, Jim Rovira wrote:
>
> > > P.S. Has anyone read some of the letters at the Letters to J.D. Salinger
> > > site? I read some the other day, and frankly, some of them were so bad I
> > > don't blame him for being a recluse. The ones from some of the students
> > > were
> > > scary. I can just imagine them at their computers with their homework
> > > assigment sheets in front of them, with all things you should include
> > > in your
> > > letter to get an A.
>
> > heh....good thing Chris left the list ;)
>
> Nah. It is fine for a writer (or editor, or compiler, or whatever) to
> hear critical things as well as praise -- arguably better to hear that
> which is critical than that which is blindly full of praise. It has
> been my experience, anyhow, that one learns more from sensible
> criticism than from well-meaning praise, however much one may like the
> feel of praise.
>
> ObSal (as we used to say: ironic shorthand for "Obligatory Salinger
> comment"): I'm sure our man in Cornish would agree on this for other
> writers (he certainly has shown himself to be ready to dish it out), but
> he has shown his skin to be thin enough that he very possibly would not
> appreciate critical responses to his own work.
>
> --tim
>
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