13 Replies to “The Dead and the Dead [Dan Collins]”

1. Donald says:

   November 10, 2007 at 7:03 am

   No big loss.

2. Major John says:

   November 10, 2007 at 7:19 am

   I second that, Donald.

3. serr8d says:

   November 10, 2007 at 7:27 am

   He drank, fought, smoked pot, married six times and stabbed his second wife, almost fatally, during a drunken party.

   Then maybe he, too, should be shot from a cannon?

4. Farmer Joe says:

   November 10, 2007 at 9:06 am

   Serr8d –

   At least Thompson’s books were entertaining.

5. CGHill says:

   November 10, 2007 at 10:12 am

   On that “fug” business, someone (Dorothy Parker?) greeted Mailer at a party later that year: “So you’re the young man who can’t spell ‘fuck’.”

6. baldilocks says:

   November 10, 2007 at 10:59 am

   One of those whom I had pegged ‘already dead.’

7. stace says:

   November 10, 2007 at 11:49 am

   Richard Adan could not be reached for a comment.

8. Jeffersonian says:

   November 10, 2007 at 12:03 pm

   Oh shit…who’s gonna spring Jack Abbott from the joint now?

9. Rick Ballard says:

   November 10, 2007 at 12:10 pm

   Dan,

   Shouldn’t the title be “John Donne Proven Wrong Again”?

10. psychologizer says:

    November 10, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    Though most of his work was garbage, and he was a huge asshole, unlike almost every literary writer who’s come after, he wasn’t a sheltered, puling bitch.

    Won’t miss him, specifically — I thought he was already dead, too, because artistically, he long had been — but it’s a reminder of the total loss of the half-great, half-ridiculous tradition of American literary manliness that he, Hunter Thompson, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, etc., were the last crazy shout of.

    They’re all dead now. It’s over.

11. Dan Collins says:

    November 10, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Have you read Stewart O’Nan’s “Prayer for the Dying,” psychologizer?

12. Fat Man says:

    November 10, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Allah Akbar!

    Will best be remembered for working hard to spring an aspiring “artist” from slam, only to see said artist stab a busboy at a restaurant to death in short order.

    Will be unread by our children, and completely forgotten by their children.

13. Donald says:

    November 10, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    Tom Wolfe writes prolifically and is awesome. Mailer sucked. Hunter Thompson wrote great shit till the end, and will never leave my imagination. Jack Abbot is/was a pussy (First it was cash, end the end it was credit. As that pussy Mailer). Miller sucked, really bad. Sorry, I like my writers to be able to write. Rave on John Donne. Rave on.

Comments are closed.