All Good Criticism Should Be

I've Had A Tough Time With Pynchon. I Liked Him Very Much When I First Read Him. I Liked Him Less With Each Book. He Got Denser And More Complex In A Way That Didn't Really Pay Off.

To Be An American (unlike Being English Or French Or Whatever) Is Precisely To Imagine A Destiny Rather Than To Inherit One; Since We Have Always Been, Insofar As We Are Americans At All, Inhabitants Of Myth Rather Than History.

I Think The Pattern Of My Essays Is, A Funny Thing Happened To Me On My Way Through Finnegans Wake.

Henry Miller Wrote Novels, But He Calls His Protagonist Henry, Often Henry Miller, And His Books Are In This Gray Area Between Memoir And Novel.

I Have, I Admit, A Low Tolerance For Detached Chronicling And Cool Analysis.