Cold River soon to be reviewed by Dale
He became famous for declaring that "Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation," but actually, "The scope of Dale Peck's contempt is wide," observes James Atlas in a New York Times Sunday Magazine profile. "He has no more regard for his elders than for his contemporaries." Peck has, for example, called Vladimir Nabokov's writing "sterile," William Faulkner "incomprehensible," and James Joyce "diarrheic." And as bad as Rick Moody may be, according to Peck Charles Dickens is actually "the worst writer to plague the English language."
· Pecking Order [NYTimes ViaMobyLives]