“ With the motto do what you will, Rabelais gave himself permission to do anything he damn well pleased with the language and the form of the novel; as a result, every author of an innovative novel mixi… Steven Moore
“ Finally, while I don’t want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens’s Great Expectations over Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, though I’ll take Lauren Fairbanks’s Sister Carrie ove… Steven Moore
“ Esme discovers the earrings and dons them, but Wyatt has already spurned her by that point. Not until the last page on which he appears does he realize the importance of the earrings; by intending to… Steven Moore
“ The art critic Crémer reminds Wyatt of Degas’s remark that the artist must approach his work in the same frame of mind in which the criminal commits his deed Steven Moore
“ It was a forged Titian that somebody had painted over another old painting, when they scraped the forged Titian away they found some worthless old painting underneath it, the forger had used it becaus… Steven Moore
