Lydia Millet Quotes


Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.


Citations

Millet, Lydia. "Watchmen." The Los Angeles Review of Books, LARB, 2012.

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Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet
  • Born: December 5, 1968
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Lydia Millet is an American novelist. Her most recent novel, A Children's Bible, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Salon wrote of Millet's work, "The writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself."