“Jess Row…snidely suggests that, for writers of “a certain age — my age . . . born in the 1970s,” Doctorow “is familiar more by reputation than by any direct influence.” Why do those in their 30s think the world of literature was reinvented the moment they skipped up to the podium to receive their M.F.A.’s?”
Hey! Not all of us born in the 1970s believe this. And no one at my graduation skipped.
—The New York Times published this letter in response to Jess Row’s Sunday Book Review of All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories by E.L. Doctorow.
