Still collating but it appears the alien is a resilient little shit with a funny habit of hugging peoples faces.
Dara Horn had reviewed Ozick’s Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays in these pages. A few years later, I sent Ozick’s latest novel Antiquities to Allegra Goodman (“a book as richly layered as an archaeological site”), and new stories, poems, and essays have continued to appear with startling frequency for a writer whose first novel, Trust, appeared in 1966. So what surprised me about Ozick’s introduction was not the familiar polysyllabic snap of her prose, or that she was still thinking through her key themes aslant and anew, but that she was confronting head-on the common critical wisdom that her essays were better than her stories. “I have been given a verdict,” she writes, “in the hierarchy of prose, the essays . . . are deemed better . . . than the fiction.”
Story Evades Cogitation: An Interview with Cynthia Ozick - Jewish Review of Books
Heck of a defense mechanism
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