chabot@amber.DEC (l s chabot) (01/15/85)
This past weekend I heard on WGBH part of an interesting lecture by Chaim Potok at the Cambridge Forum. The lecture was entitled "The Writer Against the World". I'm including net.women in this posting because of Potok's description of how it is important to him to be considered a writer, not to be categorized as a minority writer and therefore to be categorized out of significance in "mainstream" American fiction; this concern about categorization also belongs to writers who are women. He descibes the beginning of his desire to be an author: in reading _Brideshead_Revisited_ for a week he lived in a world he never knew had existed (how much does a Brooklyn yeshiva boy know of upper-class British catholics?). Potok is eloquent and funny. The lecture is available on a cassette from Cambridge Forum (I'm sending for mine!): The Cambridge Forum 3 Church Street Cambridge, MA 02138 cost: $7 ask for Chaim Potok's lecture "The Writer Against the World" L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752