X and Y, A and B

If X and Y
Swim through the sky,
Should A and B
Merge with a tree?

An Essay on the Mediocre Novelists of Brooklyn

An essay by Melvin Jules Bukiet in the Autumn 2007 issue of The American Scholar anatomizes the works of some of the mediocre novelists of Brooklyn. It's a very enjoyable read, to which I would only add the following: 

-- There is one great and underappreciated (because his books are difficult unless one is attentive) American novelist who writes stories that take place in Brooklyn: Joseph McElroy.

-- If Finnegans Wake had been set in Brooklyn in 2008 the opening would be "strollerrage" rather than "riverrun".

A Word of Explanation

Bronc White is the protagonist of a novel-in-progress about a controversial Pulitzer Prize winning poet. The title of this blog is the title of the novel as well as the title of Bronc's calling card epigram:

Your worldly-wise scribbler idylls, then slips away

To Post-Futurist forms of a pleasure lit day.

This blog is going to careen between many versions of what are intended to be pleasure-lit days.

Those who wish to do so may now fasten their seat belts.