> (with the possible exception of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison) no one else in America was writing at the same level
I believe the greater literary community would flip that and say no one else was writing at the level of Morrison & Bellow and perhaps Roth & Updike were at that level. And Updike’s work does not age nearly as well as the work of the other three.
I believe the greater literary community would flip that and say no one else was writing at the level of Morrison & Bellow and perhaps Roth & Updike were at that level. And Updike’s work does not age nearly as well as the work of the other three.