The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot. Leslie Fiedler aliveartdie Change image and share on social
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. Leslie Fiedler cooperfenimorehave Change image and share on social
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. Leslie Fiedler areabookcall Change image and share on social
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical. Leslie Fiedler closelyfunnygeneration Change image and share on social
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. Leslie Fiedler absolutelyamericanausten Change image and share on social
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. Leslie Fiedler anymorebellownovel Change image and share on social
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. Leslie Fiedler frailgertrudehemingway Change image and share on social
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. Leslie Fiedler 20thcenturykaddish Change image and share on social
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. Leslie Fiedler danceexperiencegraham share on social
