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The Western Writer and the Eastern Establishment

The Western Writer and the Eastern Establishment Vardis Fisher Western American Literature, Volume 1, Number 4, Winter 1967, pp. 244-259 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1967.0032 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528608/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:02 GMT from JHU Libraries V A R D IS F IS H E R T li e W estern W riter an d the E astern E stab lish m en t Now that I am old and unable to eat a peach, or hear the mermaids singing on the beach, if young writers of the West were to ask me for advice I’d tell them to be faithful to their talent and skeptical of their judges. If they liked that much and asked for more I’d suggest that they declare their independence of the emo­ tionally immature, intellectually sterile, and morally bankrupt literary establishment in the Northeast, now preoccupied with what a news magazine calls hard-core pornography. It is said that critics back there review this stuff with the humorless interest of a small child examining its body. In this age of gangsters and violence all that may be a neces­ sary part of a worldwide revolution in moral values, and if http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

The Western Writer and the Eastern Establishment

Western American Literature , Volume 1 (4) – Oct 4, 2017

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Vardis Fisher Western American Literature, Volume 1, Number 4, Winter 1967, pp. 244-259 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1967.0032 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528608/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:02 GMT from JHU Libraries V A R D IS F IS H E R T li e W estern W riter an d the E astern E stab lish m en t Now that I am old and unable to eat a peach, or hear the mermaids singing on the beach, if young writers of the West were to ask me for advice I’d tell them to be faithful to their talent and skeptical of their judges. If they liked that much and asked for more I’d suggest that they declare their independence of the emo­ tionally immature, intellectually sterile, and morally bankrupt literary establishment in the Northeast, now preoccupied with what a news magazine calls hard-core pornography. It is said that critics back there review this stuff with the humorless interest of a small child examining its body. In this age of gangsters and violence all that may be a neces­ sary part of a worldwide revolution in moral values, and if

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Western American LiteratureUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Oct 4, 2017

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