December 13, 2002
Reality and Fiction Collide When a Scholar Hears His Work Cited on 'The Sopranos'
Recently, on The Sopranos, Mafia daughter and Columbia University undergraduate Meadow shocked her mother, Carmela, by stating that Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd concerns a gay relationship -- citing a recent guest lecture at her university by Leslie Fiedler. "Well, she's wrong," responds Carmela, indignantly.
It just goes to show that Mr. Fiedler -- whose essays on classic American literature first scandalized readers in the late 1940s -- remains a combatant in
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