A Henry Miller Moment [and, sort of, blogging]

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Sat Oct 5 18:16:49 PDT 2002



> It's not like I think [Miller] shouldn't be quoted or anything, no more or
> less than FScottF or anything, but, really, I never get why any one
> thinks him important.
>
> Like Bret Easton Ellis, or Hemingway; I just don't get it.
>
> Catherine

Easton Ellis wrote one fine, if overlong, book -- "American Psycho." Hemingway does nothing for me. But Miller is, in my minor opinion, one of the great American writers. If you don't get it, you don't get it. Art is subjective. And at its best, brutal.

DP



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