tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post2861817023080745739..comments2024-03-07T04:13:36.330-06:00Comments on The Storyteller's Inkpot: Bukowski-inspired Mini-rantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-84920837283224070952011-01-25T07:43:43.298-06:002011-01-25T07:43:43.298-06:00I just want to be in the Huntington Gardens, one o...I just want to be in the Huntington Gardens, one of my favorite places in the world. I want to hang out with some cacti instead of all of this snow.Kelly Eastonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13409037341580163662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-66774761206273923732011-01-21T10:22:51.700-06:002011-01-21T10:22:51.700-06:00Gale, you're right, there's no denying tha...Gale, you're right, there's no denying that Bukowski was a pig. No one would choose to drink Merlot--Mad Dog, more likely--with him unless they were in the mood to be groped or buked on. <br /><br />But Ron echoes something Roger Sutton said in a Horn Book editorial (sorry, don't have the citation here) a while back, which is that lots of schlocky YA is now being packaged and promoted as if it were literary fiction, as if it were worthy of serious review attention. In the adult market, says Roger, such books are called beach books (or maybe he said airplane books), and they're paperback originals that don't pretend to be anything other than what they are: fun, forgettable, escapist stories. So I don't think it's being entirely dismissive of fellow writers to say that YA beach reads have their place--a big place, as I'm sure they make gobs more cash than lit. novels. I also think Roger and Ron are right--argh, all that alliteration!--that there's nothing shameful about calling a spade a spade. <br /><br />Why some spades take longer to write than others, I don't know. I'm guessing that most of the shovelers DO shovel fast.Christine Heppermannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16956691641741733821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-75198859899610472432011-01-20T20:59:42.894-06:002011-01-20T20:59:42.894-06:00Are you agreeing with Bukowski's negativity? H...Are you agreeing with Bukowski's negativity? His condemnation of other writers felt to me as dismissal, with an ugly edge. Is that what we want to give voice to? Haven't there always been unworthy novels published and some of the finer works turned down? Also - he sounds like an unbearable egotist who I'd never want to sit down and talk to much less share a glass of wine.Gale Farnsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140026694635442825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-25430974097854278032011-01-20T11:21:53.049-06:002011-01-20T11:21:53.049-06:00I read a lot of YA that makes me wonder why it was...I read a lot of YA that makes me wonder why it was ever published, so I understand the periodic need for a paper bag. But I do think one person's factory can be another's atelier. I don't think anyone spends years working on a project that doesn't have their heart and soul.Hannah Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04415185151123904927noreply@blogger.com