If There's One Thing I

Cooper Wrote A Novel Which Is Absolutely Indistinguishable From Austen, Completely From A Female Point Of View, Completely English, No Sense That He Was An American.

I Like That People Who Are Not Experts Can Not Only Understand But Get Engaged By My Work. I Like That Joe Paterno Can Read Me. Bill Bradley.

I've Been Writing About James Fenimore Cooper. He Was Not A Writer. Here Was A Man Who Was 30 Years Old And Had Never Put Anything More Than His Signature On Paper.

All Good Criticism Should Be Judged The Way Art Is. You Shouldn't Read It The Way You Read History Or Science.

Of The Female Black Authors, I Really Like Morrison's Early Books A Lot. But She's Really Become So Much A Clone Of Faulkner. He Did It Better.