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  • 23 Aug 09
    devijvers
    devijvers
    • So what of MosesJones's original question, which was entitled "The lack
      of respect?" My answer is that I don't pay that much notice to these
      things because I am aware at some level that I am on one side of the
      bifurcation and most literary critics are on the other, and we simply
      are not that relevant to each other's lives and careers.
  • 03 Dec 08
    komboloi
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    Neal Stephenson

  • 19 Jul 08
    sirchy
    Sirchy A

    A great interview. I heart Stephenson

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  • 07 Jul 08
    novelfriend
    Trisha Wooldridge

    Genre Writing & respect

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    • Mind you, much of the authority and seniority in that world is benevolent, or at
      least well-intentioned. If you are trying to become a writer by taking expensive
      classes in that subject, you want your teacher to know more about it than you
      and to behave like a teacher. And so you might hear advice along the lines of "I
      don't think you're ready to tackle Y yet, you need to spend a few more years
      honing your skills with X" and the like. All perfectly reasonable. But people on
      the Beowulf side may never have taken a writing class in their life. They just
      tend to lunge at whatever looks interesting to them, write whatever they please,
      and let the chips fall where they may. So we may seem not merely arrogant, but
      completely unhinged.
    • Later at the writer's conference, I introduced myself to someone who was
      responsible for organizing it, and she looked at me keenly and said, "Ah, yes,
      you're the one who's going to bring in our males 18-32." And sure enough, when
      we got to the venue, there were the males 18-32, looking quite out of place
      compared to the baseline lit-festival crowd. They stood at long lines at the
      microphones and asked me one question after another while ignoring the Dante
      writers sitting at the table with me. Some of the males 18-32 were so out of
      place that they seemed to have warped in from the Land of Faerie, and had the
      organizers wondering whether they should summon the police. But in the end they
      were more or less reasonable people who just wanted to talk about books and were
      as mystified by the literary people as the literary people were by them
  • 01 Apr 08
    lucidus
    lucidus
  • 10 Jan 07
    anonymous

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  • 06 Dec 06
    ideadude
    Jason Coleman

    interview Stephenson Humor writing

  • 20 Oct 04
    chrisl
    Chris Lott

    'Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor'

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