"There’s something confusing about the consensus around [Cyrus Duffleman]. It has to do with the way [his] critics begin by asserting [his] goodness, [his] greatness, [his] majorness or [his] bestness, and then quickly adopt a defensive tone, instructing us in ways of seeing as virtues the many things about [his] writing that might be considered shortcomings. So [he] writes only [syllabi and student assignments], but [these] are [weirder] than most novels."
~~ from "Poor Rose" by Christian Lorentzen
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