From: Nancy Werlin <nancy>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 08:29:14 -0400

A.S. Byatt and the Goblet of Bile By Charles Taylor

day, it's inevitable that there's going to be someone who slams it and tells us that what we're seeing is merely a pop phenomenon that bears no relation to literature. That esteemed gasbag Harold Bloom, in his guise as self-appointed keeper of the canon, did the honors after the fourth Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," telling us that reading should enrich us (without ever getting around to declaring whether it should entertain us) and shortly thereafter launching his own compendium of children's lit that, in his view, did just that. Right on schedule, just a mere two weeks after the new Harry Potter release, it's A.S. Byatt, apparently having made peace with Martin Amis' dental work, who steps into the ring against J.K. Rowling's books in a New York Times Op?.

Continued here.... http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/07/08/byatt_rowling/index.html
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