Daniel Green
@greenlitcrit.bsky.social
Literary Critic. Author, Beyond the Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism. Proprietor, The Reading Experience. https://www.readexperience.net
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Daniel Green
@greenlitcrit.bsky.social
· Sep 30
The Reading Experience
The reader will find book reviews, other kinds of literary criticism, and commentary on literary news.
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"Criticism isn’t a search for an absolute, what some might regard as perfect taste. It’s an experiment in aesthetic experience." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Impassioned Ferocity | Jed Perl
A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"Criticism isn’t a search for an absolute, what some might regard as perfect taste. It’s an experiment in aesthetic experience." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Selected reviews from The Reading Experience and beyond:
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Additional Reviews
Meaning’s Music (William H. Gass) If writers such as Gary Lutz, Diane Williams, and Christine Schutt have brought increased attention to the sentence as the fundamental, perhaps even self-suf…
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October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Selected reviews from The Reading Experience and beyond:
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Read "The Art of Disturbance: On the Novels of James Purdy" at the new version of The Reading Experience:
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The Art of Disturbance: On the Novels of James Purdy
The Art of Disturbance: On the Novels of James Purdy When James Purdy died in 2009 at the age of 94, most people who still recognized his name surely judged that he had long outlived whatever relev…
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October 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Read "The Art of Disturbance: On the Novels of James Purdy" at the new version of The Reading Experience:
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Read "The Art of Disturbance: On the Novels of James Purdy" at the new version of The Reading Experience:
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The Art of Disturbance: On the Novels of James Purdy
The Art of Disturbance: On the Novels of James Purdy When James Purdy died in 2009 at the age of 94, most people who still recognized his name surely judged that he had long outlived whatever relev…
readexperience.net
October 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Read "The Art of Disturbance: On the Novels of James Purdy" at the new version of The Reading Experience:
readexperience.net/the-art-of-d...
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Check out my selection of reviews/essays "On Experimental Fiction" on the new version of The Reading Experience: readexperience.net/on-experimen...
On Experimental Fiction
On Experimental Fiction The Limits of Coherence It is hard to imagine that many readers of John Trefry’s massive novel, Massive, would attempt to read every word in the book (There reall…
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October 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Check out my selection of reviews/essays "On Experimental Fiction" on the new version of The Reading Experience: readexperience.net/on-experimen...
Check out my selection of reviews/essays "On Experimental Fiction" on the new version of The Reading Experience: readexperience.net/on-experimen...
On Experimental Fiction
On Experimental Fiction The Limits of Coherence It is hard to imagine that many readers of John Trefry’s massive novel, Massive, would attempt to read every word in the book (There reall…
readexperience.net
October 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Check out my selection of reviews/essays "On Experimental Fiction" on the new version of The Reading Experience: readexperience.net/on-experimen...
Please note that the URL of The Reading Experience has changed to:
readexperience.net
readexperience.net
The Reading Experience
The reader will find book reviews, other kinds of literary criticism, and commentary on literary news.
readexperience.net
September 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Please note that the URL of The Reading Experience has changed to:
readexperience.net
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Beaming up The Reading Experience: readexperience.net
September 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Beaming up The Reading Experience: readexperience.net
Beaming up The Reading Experience: readexperience.net
September 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Beaming up The Reading Experience: readexperience.net
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Some sad news about an important contributor to and booster of early online indie literary culture and small press publishing.
I'm so sorry to hear of Dan Wickett's passing. We worked together for years at Dzanc Books, and I'm so grateful for all he did for me there and elsewhere. He was a great friend, a brilliant reader, a true advocate for writers. He loved books like no one else. I miss him already, and always will.
September 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Some sad news about an important contributor to and booster of early online indie literary culture and small press publishing.
RIP, Rosalyn Drexler. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/b...
Rosalyn Drexler, Artistic Whirlwind Who Defied Categories, Dies at 98
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September 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
RIP, Rosalyn Drexler. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/b...
The service that hosts my blog (Typepad) is shutting down, so that on or about September 25, it seems that The Reading Experience will disappear unless I can migrate it elsewhere. I've successfully exported it, but can't decide where/ if to migrate it. Suggestions?
September 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The service that hosts my blog (Typepad) is shutting down, so that on or about September 25, it seems that The Reading Experience will disappear unless I can migrate it elsewhere. I've successfully exported it, but can't decide where/ if to migrate it. Suggestions?
RIP, Ryne Sandberg. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/s...
Ryne Sandberg, Hall of Fame Second Baseman for the Cubs, Dies at 65
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July 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
RIP, Ryne Sandberg. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/s...
"And that’s the point of reviews: the future. With perspective on the history of an art form and an awareness of its current state. . .critics see in new works their implications, their promise, the possibilities that they expand...." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In Defense of the Traditional Review
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
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July 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"And that’s the point of reviews: the future. With perspective on the history of an art form and an awareness of its current state. . .critics see in new works their implications, their promise, the possibilities that they expand...." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Dalkey Archive is republishing Stanley Elkin's The Franchiser this fall. There are few writers I admire more than Elkin, and this is one of his best books. If any editorial type would like to cover this book, I am available 😀for such an assignment. static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc9a...
July 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Dalkey Archive is republishing Stanley Elkin's The Franchiser this fall. There are few writers I admire more than Elkin, and this is one of his best books. If any editorial type would like to cover this book, I am available 😀for such an assignment. static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc9a...
On the persistent misreadings of Philip Roth: hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
July 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
On the persistent misreadings of Philip Roth: hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...
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How "ethical criticism" canceled literature. (Warning: long-ish) www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/07/...
What's Good For Us: The Legacy of Wayne Booth's "Ethical Criticism"
Wayne Booth’s scholarly apologia on behalf of “ethical criticism” in his 1988 book, The Company We Keep (still the most well-known defense of such criticism written by a modern academic critic), is no...
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July 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How "ethical criticism" canceled literature. (Warning: long-ish) www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/07/...
"Booth's The Company We Keep has in retrospect become the harbinger of the profound shift of scholarly perspective that has occurred over the past 50 years, by which the academic study of literature has all but banished the aesthetic" www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/07/...
What's Good For Us: The Legacy of Wayne Booth's "Ethical Criticism"
Wayne Booth’s scholarly apologia on behalf of “ethical criticism” in his 1988 book, The Company We Keep (still the most well-known defense of such criticism written by a modern academic critic), is no...
www.thereadingexperience.net
July 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"Booth's The Company We Keep has in retrospect become the harbinger of the profound shift of scholarly perspective that has occurred over the past 50 years, by which the academic study of literature has all but banished the aesthetic" www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/07/...
How "ethical criticism" canceled literature. (Warning: long-ish) www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/07/...
What's Good For Us: The Legacy of Wayne Booth's "Ethical Criticism"
Wayne Booth’s scholarly apologia on behalf of “ethical criticism” in his 1988 book, The Company We Keep (still the most well-known defense of such criticism written by a modern academic critic), is no...
www.thereadingexperience.net
July 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How "ethical criticism" canceled literature. (Warning: long-ish) www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/07/...
Greatest hits: www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
Best of The Reading Experience
This blog has been around for a pretty long time now, and, together with the essays and reviews I have published in other venues, I have accumulated a sizable number of reviews, critical readings, and...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Greatest hits: www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
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I am not virtuous. www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
Maybe I'm Just a Bad Person
According to Elif Shafaf, fiction "encourages empathy, oneness, pluralism, wisdom and understanding, especially in these awfully fractured times." I think of all the fiction I have read and ask myself...
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June 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I am not virtuous. www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
I am not virtuous. www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
Maybe I'm Just a Bad Person
According to Elif Shafaf, fiction "encourages empathy, oneness, pluralism, wisdom and understanding, especially in these awfully fractured times." I think of all the fiction I have read and ask myself...
www.thereadingexperience.net
June 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I am not virtuous. www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
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Me on Joe Darlington's The Experimentalists: The Life and Times of the British Experimental Writers of the 1960s. www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
British Experimental Fiction
For American readers, in considering the development of "experimental" fiction during the 1960s and after, we are most likely to focus mainly on American writers- the postmodernists and their successo...
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June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Me on Joe Darlington's The Experimentalists: The Life and Times of the British Experimental Writers of the 1960s. www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
Me on Joe Darlington's The Experimentalists: The Life and Times of the British Experimental Writers of the 1960s. www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
British Experimental Fiction
For American readers, in considering the development of "experimental" fiction during the 1960s and after, we are most likely to focus mainly on American writers- the postmodernists and their successo...
www.thereadingexperience.net
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Me on Joe Darlington's The Experimentalists: The Life and Times of the British Experimental Writers of the 1960s. www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/06/...
Summer is now permanently over.
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The Beach Boys ~ All Summer Long (1964)
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June 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Summer is now permanently over.
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