Comments on: Friends on the Street http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/troubled-guests-of-earth/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/troubled-guests-of-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Jeff Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:34:32 +0000 http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/issue/?p=3558#comment-227 John, hello. Nice article, and well-written. I read _Poor People_ and was affected by it also. Some reviewers were unhappy Vollmann didn't offer some policy guidelines or answers; but that wasn't his plan, as you indicate. At http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/earnest there are a few of my thoughts on _Poor People_, the Vollmann _Reader_, and the abridged _RURD_, if you're interested. Best of luck with your novel. Jeff John, hello.

Nice article, and well-written. I read _Poor People_ and was affected by it also. Some reviewers were unhappy Vollmann didn’t offer some policy guidelines or answers; but that wasn’t his plan, as you indicate.

At

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/earnest

there are a few of my thoughts on _Poor People_, the Vollmann _Reader_, and the abridged _RURD_, if you’re interested.

Best of luck with your novel.

Jeff

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