I agree with you, Robin. King is one of the few muscles in
contemporary American prose. I think Ursula Le Guin is another. This
piece she wrote on "serious literature" might amuse you...
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-ChabonAndGenre.html
Btw, how isn't prose an artform? There are many kinds of it, after
all. And aside from genre, people are still writing high art novels.
xA
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Robin Hamilton
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> ... if had to rank them (and if I were teaching a course on The Great
> Twentieth Century American Novel), I'd place _The Green Mile_ not that shy
> of _The Great Ghatsby_.
>
> Mind you, I don't go a bundle on the idea of prose as an art form anyway,
> and if I had to teach 20thC American fiction , it would probably be
> something from Pynchon -- 48th Street Blues rather than V or Gravity's
> Rainbow, whatever.
>
> Apart from anything else, there's a case for +short+ novels ...
>
> Just a thot.
>
> Much rather teach Stevens or Pound, but ...
>
> <g>
>
> Robin
>
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