Hey 19

[j minnich]

Sez Steely: 

>The press release makes M&D sound like something out of Tom Robbins, not
>Pynchon's Finnegan's Wake or--even better--The Confidence Man. (Nobody
>reads Pierre these days, but that would have been one to shoot for two. In
>fact, there are some mornings when I think Pierre is the best American
>novel.)
>

Yeah, much as I agree about _Pierre_ and _The Confidence Man_, and much as I
like seeing them plugged (strictly shooting for two, here) I'd say George
Lippard's _Quaker City_ has gots to be the best American novel.
                        -j minnich