Gaddis and McElroy

[Brian Stonehill Media Studies Pomona College]

Friends, I didn't mean to turn chatty, but Gaddis & McElroy are both high in my
personal pantheon.

Will L. baits the hook:

>What can you guys offer on McElroy to lure me in 

Chomp.

The _Review of Contemporary Fiction_ has devoted whole special issues to Gaddis
& to McElroy separately, & I recommend both of them, including good interviews
w/ the subjects.  I confess to having written on "Intimations of Human Divinity
in Jos. McElroy's LOOKOUT CARTRIDGE" for the latter & if that doesn't nudge 
your Pynchonesque spooky-bone then I just can't reach...

I may have mentioned before that ...Cartridge oscillates (yo-yo's!) between New
York & London, late '60s I think, with a visionary detour to Stonehenge.  Hey!
Full of molecular analogies too.

McElroy's _The Letter Left to Me_ is less cerebral, more convolutedly human;
sort of McElroy's _Carpenter's Gothic_, you might say, locked into one family's
psychopolitics.  Its virtue is brevity.  Come to think of it, I think I wrote a
reference article on this guy not too long ago.  I know, I say it all the time:
"He's a major figure!"  sigh.