[Dixielandjazz] A New Thread for the DJML to fight over

[Stephen G Barbone]

His 1967 essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" made the powerful case  
that writers of serious fiction must shun the inheritance of realism  
or else doom themselves to stale variations within a tradition that  
had used up its potential for innovation. Writers who took this route  
would be like lion tamers or Dixieland jazz players: delightful  
adepts, perhaps, but hardly essential to the contemporary moment.