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What were the critics like? Some of them were vicious and horrified, and some in love with the book, like John Updike and Henry Miller. There was no gray area. They either were outraged or ecstatic. Nothing in-between, which I suppose is good. (See the top 10 John Updike novels...
...rare for a writer to be so defined by one book. You've written eight novels, seven books of poetry, a significant amount of nonfiction, and yet you're so known by this one book. Is that frustrating? Of course it's frustrating. But one realizes it's also blessing to have a book that is so widely known - even if misinterpreted - and a book that makes your name. It's rare. You have to feel that it's a blessing and a curse because it is. Whoever promised us we'd be understood anyway...
...Your new book is a poetry collection. You began as a poet, didn't you? Yes. I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. I go on using it as a way into my deeper mind. Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression...
...produce genius is a very old question, one that has occupied philosophers since antiquity. In the modern era, Immanuel Kant and Darwin's cousin Francis Galton wrote extensively about how genius occurs. Last year, pop-sociologist Malcolm Gladwell addressed the subject in his book Outliers: The Story of Success...
...latest, and possibly most comprehensive, entry into this genre is Dean Keith Simonton's new book Genius 101: Creators, Leaders, and Prodigies (Springer Publishing Co., 227 pages). Simonton, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, is one of the world's leading authorities on the intellectually eminent, whom he has studied since his Harvard grad-school days in the 1970s. (See pictures of Albert Einstein...