Nov 14, 2022·edited Nov 14, 2022Liked by Nancy Beiman
I read this in A SUBTREASURY OF AMERICAN HUMOR by the Whites when I was a kid. There was another piece in the same section with some relevance to your overall theme, title and author forgotten, which maintained (facetiously) that Edgar Rice Burroughs was the world’s greatest author by a considerable margin because his appeal was so broad-based, and gave the reasons for same. Given that the movies are the most profit-driven art form, the juxtaposition of these two essays may have some relevance. I don’t know if I ever actually read any of the Leatherstocking Saga, but I certainly read a lot of Burroughs as a youngster. (I added this, and it's not there, so here it is again: the other piece is "How to Be a Great Writer," by Alva Johnstone."
I read this in A SUBTREASURY OF AMERICAN HUMOR by the Whites when I was a kid. There was another piece in the same section with some relevance to your overall theme, title and author forgotten, which maintained (facetiously) that Edgar Rice Burroughs was the world’s greatest author by a considerable margin because his appeal was so broad-based, and gave the reasons for same. Given that the movies are the most profit-driven art form, the juxtaposition of these two essays may have some relevance. I don’t know if I ever actually read any of the Leatherstocking Saga, but I certainly read a lot of Burroughs as a youngster. (I added this, and it's not there, so here it is again: the other piece is "How to Be a Great Writer," by Alva Johnstone."