https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2011/03/this-bountiful-world-the-meandering-path-of-a-book-in-progress1.html Author Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2011/03/this-bountiful-world-the-meandering-path-of-a-book-in-progress1.html#comment-148 Jerry Dennis Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:20:35 +0000 http://jerrydennis.net/?p=539#comment-148 P.J. — Barthelme is a treasure-house of gems like that. Do you remember what a rock star he was in the 60s and 70s? He smashed the usual idea of a “New Yorker story” — then redefined our idea of stories in general. Much of his experimental work continues to delight and edify me but his most conventional story, “Visitors,” (in “Overnight to Many Distant Cities”) remains my favorite of his works and among my favorite of all short stories.

]]> https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2011/03/this-bountiful-world-the-meandering-path-of-a-book-in-progress1.html#comment-147 pamela Grath Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:34:09 +0000 http://jerrydennis.net/?p=539#comment-147 “…I hold onto the hard, brown, nutlike word.” That I love, even more than the slumgullion, but thank you for ‘bricolage,” Jerry, because that’s one of my favorites.

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