http://www.edrants.com/are-harvey-pekars-recent-volumes-too-peripherally-focused/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.edrants.com/are-harvey-pekars-recent-volumes-too-peripherally-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-251024 Gumbo Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:58:49 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=6364#comment-251024 David Ulin sounds like one of those guys that booed Bob Dylan when he went electric. Let Pekar explore whatever he wants, for Christ's sake, and you can read it or not. Don't require an artist to play into your expectations or tastes, because what you're really asking for is redundancy. David Ulin sounds like one of those guys that booed Bob Dylan when he went electric. Let Pekar explore whatever he wants, for Christ’s sake, and you can read it or not. Don’t require an artist to play into your expectations or tastes, because what you’re really asking for is redundancy.

]]> http://www.edrants.com/are-harvey-pekars-recent-volumes-too-peripherally-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-236371 Stephen Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:18:44 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=6364#comment-236371 Pekar's trying to make as much money as he can, without compromising the quality of his work and I don't blame him for that. I thought Ego & Hubris was a very strong piece of work although Malice isn't as appealing a personality as Pekar, at least as written anyway. Pekar’s trying to make as much money as he can, without compromising the quality of his work and I don’t blame him for that. I thought Ego & Hubris was a very strong piece of work although Malice isn’t as appealing a personality as Pekar, at least as written anyway.

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