David M
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Tod Wodicka:
I just read your review of Nadas's PS. I read this book when it first came out in '11, and like you I was overwhelmed, besotted, etc. At the time most reviews were negative. I really appreciate you championing this masterpiece. I see you are a highly accomplished author in your own right. I hope to soon read your novels. Has Nadas has been an influence for you when writing about the body?
Tod Wodicka
Thank you, David. PS is simply one of the finest experience I've had with literature this past decade. A book like that: it's why I read in the first place. I was baffled and often upset by a lot of the lazy or negative reviews that came in for it. It deserves long winding essays; it deserves far more serious readers than it attracted. But having been on the other side of the novelist/reviewer Dance of Death, I now see how hard it is for (literally) poor reviewers to find the time to properly review something of that magnitude. As for your question about Nadas influence, I'd have to say that if a reader is looking for anything Nadas-like in my work, they won't find it. (Sadly.) We couldn't be more different. In fact, the main character of my new novel is someone who is more-or-less detached from his body, from the mess and needs of it.
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