Summer Transfer Window (Stephen Glass’ first)

[The Red Max]

I get booed for agreeing with Truman Capote’s “that’s not writing, it’s typing” appraisal of On The Road, and can’t get on with The Great Gatsby either. One Hundred Years Of Solitude was sent to the Shelter shop after I junked it after slogging through about 50% of its repetitive ‘magic realism’. **** off, give me Sillitoe, Braine, Bairstow, Hardy, Dickens, Lawrence, Gaskell, new kid on the block John Clarke, and a hunner others wired into Proper Mannies’ (and other genders’) lives and challenges.

There is no finer fitba fiction than Robin Jenkins’s The Thistle And The Grail (especially the edition with the Johnny Hewitt Ullevi cover). Discuss analytically, citing and referencing accurately your sources.

Pretty much on board with you 100% there, comrade, although I do like Gatsby for my sins.