Talk:Jeremy Larner

Puffery

I find myself offended by this piece of puffery, which seems likely to have been written by Larner himself. Thirty-six of the first thirty-eight contributions were by one JGabriel, a name which likely has signiicance for Larner as it is shared in part with the anarchist hero of his novel Drive, He Said. JGabriel's only contributions to Wikipedia for their first two years here were mostly to the Jeremy Larner and then, a year later, the Jesse Larner articles; then they went silent for five years.

The article itself offers a spate of useless trivia, for example: "Grove Press celebrated its publication in early '65 with a party for Larner and William S. Burroughs, where Norman Mailer challenged Larner to a fight." The Web appears to offer no other references to this alleged challenge; an absence all too typical of the entire article.

The whole thing reads like a submission for an obituary that would be cut to a column of perhaps forty lines, considering the subject's importance as a writer and cultural figure. But perhaps Larner's interlocutors will be pleased at not having to listen to the whole thing recited verbally; he can just direct them to this overblown Wikipedia entry.

I see that the User Talk page for JGabriel refers to this article: "I see you've recently created an article titled 'Jeremy Larner: Academy Award winning American Novelist, Journalist, and Poet'. This title does not adhere to WP's policies concerning titles of articles and as such, I have requested its deletion. I have copied the text from that page and inserted it on the Jeremy Larner page -- please focus your editing efforts there. Cheers!" Apparently "JGabriel" created the Larner page before Wikipedia imposed a mandatory quality assurance review before an article would appear in Wikipedia, or it would not be here in its present puffed glory. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 15:45, 23 February 2018 (UTC)