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Howard Howard's Reputation Through His Life
He was often tipped as a contender for the Nobel Prize for literature, but never won. Was he underrated in his lifetime in your view? It's not underrated, it's a scandal. The modern taste does not like his quizzica. Orthodoxy got him. Look, every novelist has to fight against the prevailing orthodoxy. He is a very male writer,. and he's Eastern Europe, we had mentioned, the Eastern European man, and it's not to our taste. He's to my taste.
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