What TV Talk Could Still Be (If We Want It)
Watching this hour-long discussion of the state of modern fiction with two (then) young novelists, Bret Easton Ellis and Fernanda Eberstadt, was like a big splash of cold water in the face of what passes for discourse on television today. Mr. Ellis' work has of course gone on to be high profile and turned into motion pictures; I hadn't read or heard of Ms. Eberstadt but I was most impressed by her ability to speak coherently and intelligently, and to defend her work to the quibbles of the show's resident critic, a magazine editor whose name I forget but who struck me as uptight and humorless. I was pleased, upon further research, to see that she has continued writing well-received work. This is not the same thing as an Oprah Book Club program and all the richer for it. It's illuminating discussion that will make you hungry to read a book.
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