"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
-Kafka
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Why we haven't seen a great 9/11 novel
An interesting article about why it's so hard to write a novel about 9/11. The article is good...until the author calls Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close "sentimental."
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