tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224369724502884424.post2667603256482468526..comments2013-09-20T19:12:40.932-07:00Comments on A Blog of One's Own: Thought For FoodKirstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549107457538096059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224369724502884424.post-53297945806383373662010-02-27T12:53:37.408-08:002010-02-27T12:53:37.408-08:00I agree. Why do we need to see the two forms as s...I agree. Why do we need to see the two forms as somehow contingent upon each other - like a scale tipping either way? As with any genre of art, there are multiple approaches to recording experience, and varying approaches will connect with the varying kinds of people who consume art in the first place. We've hardly reached a monoculture, where all of us feel the fragmentation and the urgency for the "real" that Shields feels. I certainly don't feel that, anyway...Kirstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06549107457538096059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224369724502884424.post-4095961274271897122010-02-27T12:30:58.880-08:002010-02-27T12:30:58.880-08:00I thought this was really interesting, too; I real...I thought this was really interesting, too; I realize that Shields wrote a polemic, which by its nature should be provocative and extreme, but what I want to know is why, even accepting that nonfiction is becoming increasingly important as a literary genre, that means that fiction necessarily has lost all its value? Can't we have both?Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17781266807890968430noreply@blogger.com