Look at Franzen's the Corrections. He names two tree species on the first page. This is par for the course: the private eye can't drive past some woodland on the way to an interview without the narrator telling us what all the trees were. Why have the more 'literary' writers got this compulsion to spell out tree species? Surely the average American these days is a townie - or is it because he's a townie and the writer wants to connect him to his roots? I think all those summer camps must cast a long shadow.
2006-09-02
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