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I’ve had students who have read all of Joyce or Faulkner orHemingway, and one who had read more Czech novels than I could ever hope to get through, as wellas students who had read pretty much only Stephen King or Danielle Steel. First, never assume anythingabout background experience.
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I also have plenty of the typical-college-student type, but the nontraditional students have taught me a few things. One of the great things about teaching atthe University of Michigan–Flint, as opposed to the University of Michigan, is ceaseless contact withadult learners, many of whom hunger for more learning. Teaching at a branch campus of a famous university, I meether, or her male equivalent, the guy (usually, although there are women as well) laid off from theĪssembly line at General Motors, again and again. She had alwaysbeen a serious reader, but she had felt that she was missing something in her experience of literature,some deep secret her teachers had known but not imparted to her. Faced with the prospect of obtaining a bachelor’sdegree, she chose to follow her heart this time around and pursue a degree in English. She was a thirty-seven-year-old returning student, probably divorced, probably a nurse forced back to coursework bychanges in the licensure rules of the profession. A dozen or so yearsago when I was drafting the original, I was pretty clear on the audience for my book. Indeed, without them, this revision would not have been possible. I wish,however, to recognize one special debt of gratitude to a group whose assistance has beenmonumental. The customary acknowledgments and thanks are typically placed at the back of the book. Sometimes we’re right, sometimeswe’re all wet. We all hope to find an audience-anyaudience-and we believe we have some idea who that will be. Not all stories of publication switchbacks are so stark.
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If you want to know what the world thinks about a writer and her work, checkback with us in, oh, two hundred years or so.
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But it’s the Moby-Gatsby kind of story thatcompels our attention. There are also tales, of course, of unexpected bestsellers that go on and on, as well as flashes inthe pan that flare up but then die out without a trace. It would take another generation for the world to discover how great Gatsbytruly is, three or four times that for Moby-Dick to be recognized as a masterpiece. In any case, Fitzgerald lived only long enough to see his books largely out of print, hisroyalties nonexistent. Humankind, observed Fitzgerald’s contemporary T. Successfully predicting the coming calamity looks a lot like an excess of gloominess-until thedisaster arrives. On the other hand, maybe that is why it turnedaway. The Great Gatsby is so much subtler, so much moreinsightful about human nature and its historical moment, than his earlier books that it is almostinconceivable that his huge audience turned away. Nor was Fitzgerald’s tale of aromantic dreamer trying to rewrite his past. Melville must have thought, after finding large readerships for earlier novels,that the crazed search for the white whale would be a smash. The classic example is the writer whose best book goes thud upon release. It should be a question mark, though, because what occurs from then on isanybody’s guess. More often than not, thatpunctuation is a period. Writers think they know theirbusiness when they sit down to compose a new work, and I suppose they do, right up to the momentwhen the last piece of punctuation gets planted on the final sentence. THE AMAZING THING ABOUT BOOKS is how they have lives of their own.
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