cyber-models and The latest New Yorker

[Paul DiFilippo]

Dave Blanchard asks me if the Burroughs I cite as a role model
is William or Edgar Rice.  As anyone who has read Philip
Jose Farmer's wonderful pastiche of Tarzan as told by WB, "The
Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" would know, the two authors are
congruent.
The latest _New Yorker_ qualifies as the special TP issue
with two references.  In a survey of current British lit, Hanif
Kureishi cites TP as a writer he admires (and presumably is
influenced by.  Kureishi as screenwriter for GR, the movie?
"When Roger and Jessica Got Laid", natch!  Second in the issue,
Jonathan Franzen's very interesting essay tangential to 
cyberpunk and digitization of our lives, in which he (Franzen) 
sez, "The most original and farseeing novelists of our own
day--William Gadds, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon--not only accept
the shadows but seek them out."
TYPO ALERT!  Missing right paren after "by."  "Gadds" for "Gaddis"

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