http://www.edrants.com/segundo/the-bat-segundo-show-58-am-homes/ A cultural podcast in tenebrous standing Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.edrants.com/segundo/the-bat-segundo-show-58-am-homes/comment-page-1/#comment-12837 Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:29:14 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/segundo/?p=76#comment-12837 [...] Roiphe gets so many things wrong about A.M. Homes that it’s hard to know where to start. She claims that A.M. Homes has “made a minor specialty of luridness,” only to contradict herself paragraphs later by characterizing Homes’s books as “sleek, violent cartoons.” Roiphe writes of Homes’s heightened reality as if ignorant of the relationship between realism and surrealism that has long been at the center of contemporary fiction, perhaps best epitomized by John Cheever’s “The Swimmer.” In fact, Homes herself has stated repeatedly in interviews that her m.o. is to to continue her work along the lines of this novelistic tradition. [...] [...] Roiphe gets so many things wrong about A.M. Homes that it’s hard to know where to start. She claims that A.M. Homes has “made a minor specialty of luridness,” only to contradict herself paragraphs later by characterizing Homes’s books as “sleek, violent cartoons.” Roiphe writes of Homes’s heightened reality as if ignorant of the relationship between realism and surrealism that has long been at the center of contemporary fiction, perhaps best epitomized by John Cheever’s “The Swimmer.” In fact, Homes herself has stated repeatedly in interviews that her m.o. is to to continue her work along the lines of this novelistic tradition. [...]

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