Thursday, January 07, 2010

Big Two-Hearted Wal-Mart

This is for Joy:

"Humor makes the door bigger. If you write in a comic vein, anyone can get into your story--any person, any place--whereas drop Hemingway in Wal-Mart, and what is he going to do with that material?....Gogol, on the other hand, you could put in Wal-Mart and he would do fine. Also Shakespeare, although he'd probably catch grief for the pointy shoes."
--George Saunders

I would look for Hemingway over in Sporting Goods.

2 comments:

Bardiac said...

I have a feeling Milton would find plenty to look at in the book section, where they have all the rapture stuff. He'd be shocked, but he'd look.

Joy said...

: )