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Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88

• pg 14y ago
  "These were books, he would later recall, that he was “supposed to write.”" It's impressive when someone who's already successful discovers and passes that limit. I liked his book on meter though, even if it was one of the books he was supposed to write.
  • andrewl 14y ago
    Try reading the title piece of his collection "Thank God for the Atom Bomb." I thought of it when I read your essay "What you Can't Say." Fussell liked breaking rules, and he did it with subtlety and a lot of thought. He was a complex thinker.
• cafard 14y ago
  "The Great War and Modern Memory" is an excellent book.