Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:27:50 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> [quoting someone unattributed]
>> >On a less livid note, I've tried in vain to read Gene Wolfe; I think =
I'm
>> >missing a critical lit'ry allele. I also can't read anything longer =
than =
>> a
>> >short story in present tense; it irritates me.
>>
>> Keith Roberts did - I think - two  stories in the second person.  =
Rather =
>> present tense . . .
>
>Brad Solomon wrote an entire *novel* (mystery -- not SF) in present-tense =
-- and
>carried it off so well that it took me most of the first chapter to
>notice/realize what he'd done.
>
>--Ted White

Entire novel?  Now that's impressive.

mjw