tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32576041.post1503448300372404217..comments2023-05-19T03:37:29.269-07:00Comments on [tk]: Fanboy Chabonnathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978764989360943906noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32576041.post-51883927327970547082008-07-11T18:30:00.000-07:002008-07-11T18:30:00.000-07:00umm... happy 105th Mr Grainger?umm... happy 105th Mr Grainger?Evie Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01315022056157599629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32576041.post-9601741613521238122008-07-08T18:25:00.000-07:002008-07-08T18:25:00.000-07:00A point I wish I'd had the space to make in the re...A point I wish I'd had the space to make in the review is that Chabon often equates "entertainment" with "story," using the concepts interchangably throughout the collection. So according to this loosey goosey definition, Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby and even The Bible are works of art because they "entertain" through the power of "story." Chabon is too clever to come out and say this, because if he did the obvious response would be: "Why doesn't anybody but a few bored scholars read the far more "story-rich source" material for Hamlet and King Lear? Why read the plays, in which the "story" is so clearly secondary to character and expressive language?" Chabon, like so many of his McSweeney's buddies, resorts to cool-hoarding and adjective-juggling to distract the reader from this and many other non-arguments in the essays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com