October 18, 2004

We're Sure That Tom Wolfe's New One Will Be "A Thick, Throbbing Sausage of a Novel"

Janet Maslin: "Honeymoons don't get more hellish than the one that kicks off "The Falls," Joyce Carol Oates's thundering, sudsy Niagara of a novel."

In light of the Times' recent Toni Bentley obsession, we're wondering precisely what "thundering, sudsy Niagra" conjures up in other Times writers' minds.

Posted by DrMabuse at October 18, 2004 04:07 PM
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Actually, the sausage 'metaphors' have already been tapped for Joyce Carol Oates:

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/archive/2004_09_27_archive.asp#109626622840197608

http://arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/09/19/booat19.xml

Posted by: Nathalie Chicha at October 18, 2004 06:05 PM