RE: Soft Boiled

the letters to whit b. support michael's view. he was
aiming different stories to different markets.

one could even go so far as to say jds was aiming his
late 40s, early 50s stories to a market: the new
yorker.

it's only from raise high on does jds write without an
eye on the market.

kim

--- Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
wrote:
> just a writer writing a story that would sell. just
> like fitzgerald did at times. to make a living
> being a writer, you have to write things that will
> sell. once he didn't have to sell, his writing
> became less magaziney. i was just saying, if he had
> a trillion dollars, he would have been writing
> "seymour: an introduction" a lot sooner, and, we
> would have never seen any of it. i don't see
> writing for money as jaded...just, this story seems
> more like a product than a story.
>
> >>> daniel.yocum@Peterson.af.mil 06/04/03 11:28AM
> >>>
> Mercenary? Or just a writer learning his chops?
> Maybe, Jerome actually was
> motivated by different things, or he used the pop
> culture view to anchor
> something he wanted to say, sure he was not
> sculpting a Holden but it is not
> bad. I'd even go as far as saying that it is better
> than most in today's
> magazines that pass novelty for genius.
> Sentimental? Sentimental is human
> and a worthy topic in it's place. I found Esme's
> rain drops dripping
> sentimentality, is her post merely reflection of
> this time and this place?
> There are living breathing Burkes today and there
> are Philly's and there are
> even Juanitas, the whole world isn't jaded. Some
> people still have the
> sight to see awe in the mundane. Give me Burkes,
> give me Phillys, give me
> Juanitas over Woodys any day of the week and twice
> on Saturday. Esme, I
> found your uncle and Dad to be a sentimental gem (no
> sarcasm).
> Daniel
>
> Soft Boiled, as well as most of his early war
> stories, to me, are the
> equivalent of Bruce Springsteen or Alan Jackson
> singing songs about Sept.
> 11. Not what the writer would write about if he had
> a trillion dollars.
>
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Received on Wed Jun 4 15:11:08 2003