Comments on: Flying Roundtable: Stage One

By: Morning Bites: Bill Callahan, Eric Kraft, MoCCA Fest, and more | Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:35:51 +0000

[...] to continue with his work at all.” If you’re unfamiliar with Kraft’s work, Edward Champion led an epic round-table discussion of his book Flying in [...]

By: Roundtable Discussion Coming in July : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

Roundtable Discussion Coming in July : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:32:56 +0000

[...] discussions of Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker, Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke, Eric Kraft’s Flying, and various other books, this casual but thoughtful symposium in July will operate along similar [...]

By: Flying Roundtable: Stage Five : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

Flying Roundtable: Stage Five : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:13:15 +0000

[...] is the fifth of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four can be read here. Many thanks to Eric Kraft and all the [...]

By: Flying Roundtable: Stage Four : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

Flying Roundtable: Stage Four : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:19:27 +0000

[...] is the fourth of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One, Part Two, and Part Three can be read [...]

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:39:56 +0000

Cheever wrote “The Swimmer,” not Updike.

By: Flying Roundtable: Stage Three : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

Flying Roundtable: Stage Three : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:52:07 +0000

[...] is the third of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One and Part Two can be read [...]

By: Flying Roundtable: Stage Two : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

Flying Roundtable: Stage Two : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:01:44 +0000

[...] is the second of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One can be read [...]

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:14 +0000

Good catch, I think: There is something to the Updike comparison here: the Updike of the swimmer or of the strange, wondrous (wildly sexist) erotic passages in Rabbit. Yes.

By: John Burciaga

John Burciaga — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:49:11 +0000

Allow me to post, I, who am not a Kraft/Leroy reader (yet)but comments to this point make me wish to be. Is there not something here of Updike? Since he is now dead, we need another one. The call to “open our minds” in the context of a character given to quasi- or un-real pursuits can be an important one–and perhaps best heard in such context than in nonfiction where we are prone to personal reactions to people and events, hence less willing to hear the call.