Harold Bloom Blasts Steven King
Rush and Moloy report that the beloeved superintellectual Harold Bloom is upset that Steven King is getting the National Book Foundation Award (whatever that is).
Bloom, perhaps the greatest living explainer of Shakespeare now living, should take heart. We love Bloom's interpretation of Falstaff and Hamlet. Dear Bloom, nowadays these book thingies, from The Oprah Club to the Kelly Ripa Club (like Oprah and Kelly are depleting Barnes and Noble stocks) are just ways to get people in this country to tear away from the tv sets and read a little, expand the old attention span.
Shakespeare is forever, Dr. Bloom, Steven King is to get people to open a book.
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I generally dislike jumping on a small mistake of the type we ALL make from time to time, but...
"The greatest LIVING explainer of Shakespeare now LIVING" Come on, man. As to your point, yes, Shakespeare is 'forever'...but great art should never be the enemy of good art, or even competent art. I know, in my BONES, that Shakespeare would laugh in Bloom's face over his fawning Bard worship, and he would laud the work of writers like King; solid, well told, entertaining. I love Bloom, and I sometimes hate him, too. But he is wrong to constantly lambaste solid, competent writers, who sometimes achieve excellence, simply because they aren't Shakespeare. Snobbery is always laughable.
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