Matthew Specktor Quotes About Culture

• Tengo la sensación de que la ficción se está uniendo a la poesía en el margen cultural. A mí, como a mucha gente, me apasiona, pero ya no ocupa un lugar tan central en la cultura como antes.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Culture, Fiction

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

  Matthew Specktor

  Pensar, Gente, Dar

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Culture, Casualties

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

  Matthew Specktor

  People, Culture, Ridiculous

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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