I sometimes wonder about the phrase "too good to be true." Latterly because in a review of Bruce Jay Friedman's memoir, "Lucky Bruce," the reviewer cites a Long Island lunch group of writers as successful as Friedman, Mario Puzo, Joseph Heller and a few others as rejecting "James Salter from the clique because he is too good a writer."Is there such a thing as being too good or too true a writer, and being rejected fo…
SOURCE: John Simon at 08:24PM on October 8, 2011