Subject: Re: The business of subjects (Administrative Trivia)
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 11:33:32 EDT
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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