Gibson's lived in Canada for 40 years, I am not sure he counts as "American," although he is still technically a US citizen, according to Wickipedia. I think Toni Morrison is vastly overrated, anyway. Alice Walker, much better, is radical. Thomas Pynchon is far from dead yet. Grace Paley is still with us. Marge Piercey's still writing good stuff. Oh, there are lots and lots of folks writing radical fiction (and poetry). Or radicals writing fiction and poetry, not quite the same thing. FWIW I've never been able to get all the way through a book of Walter Mosley's. Alan Wald's books, Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left and Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade are wonderful studies of early-midcentury American radical fiction.
--- dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Sat, July 7, 2007 11:52 am, Robert Wrubel wrote:
>
> > I'm racking my brains to think if any current
> American novelists qualify
> > as radical in this article's sense.
>
> William Gibson and Toni Morrison come to mind. But
> Eagleton's critique of
> decadence is a bit misplaced. British imperialism
> has gone to the dogs --
> once it ruled the planet, now it barely controls a
> couple bases near
> Basra. Good riddance. Still and all, British
> aesthetics is quite lively,
> thanks to the civilizing influence of the EU and
> waves of immigration from
> the former colonies.
>
> -- DRR
>
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