Comments on: “A work of distinctly minor Hemingway fiction.” http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2008/06/11/hemingway/ A National Blog of Literature & Discussion Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:47:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: James McCaffery http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2008/06/11/hemingway/#comment-2485 James McCaffery Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:30:55 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=285#comment-2485 Not forgetting Dwight Macdonald's classic deflation of late Hemingway in an essay republished in Against the American Grain (1962). Not forgetting Dwight Macdonald’s classic deflation of late Hemingway in an essay republished in Against the American Grain (1962).

]]> By: Brendan Wolfe http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2008/06/11/hemingway/#comment-2481 Brendan Wolfe Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:08:23 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=285#comment-2481 There is no right or wrong when it comes to this stuff, of course. But even if there were, I would never use the Pulitzer Prize as my guide. William H. Gass exaggerated when he declared that "the Pulitzer Prize in fiction takes dead aim at mediocrity and almost never misses; the prize is simply not given to work of the first rank, rarely even to the second" -- but not by much. That's the nature of such prizes. Anyway, great excerpt. There is no right or wrong when it comes to this stuff, of course. But even if there were, I would never use the Pulitzer Prize as my guide. William H. Gass exaggerated when he declared that “the Pulitzer Prize in fiction takes dead aim at mediocrity and almost never misses; the prize is simply not given to work of the first rank, rarely even to the second” — but not by much. That’s the nature of such prizes.

Anyway, great excerpt.

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