“Evan Karp: I’m not sure I agree with the idea that a writer is more important than his books.
Charles Kruger: Remember: I said that while the writer is alive. … It’s an obscenity to suggest that the work—that the artifact—is more important than the living writer. It’s an offensive idea.”
Over at Litseen, Evan Karp gets into it with Charles Kruger, a painter who spent ninety days immersing himself in the art world after being laid off as a high school teacher.
