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George: If you haven't seen it, John Barth has an article in the Jan/Feb issue of Poets & Writers that contains an anecdote about John Gardner, who lectured at a Barth seminar "fresh from his kneecapping treatise On Moral Fiction."
I suppose it makes sense that Barth and Gardner didn't see eye to eye on literary criticism. You've got to love Barth's use of the word "kneecapping," even though it's not very kind to Gardner.
Posted by: Evan Schaeffer | February 22, 2004 at 09:22 AM