Newsweek slags _GR_

[Penny Padgett]

Hi all,

It's been quite the month for references to _GR_ in popular magazines.
This week's Newsweek, in a review of _Infinite Jest_ ("Levity's
Rainbow," Newsweek, Feb. 12, 1996, pp. 80-1) says:

  A jacket blurb calls [_Infinite Jest_] "a 'Naked Lunch' for the
  '90s" (lots of drugs); but it's also a "Gravity's Rainbow" (epic
  preposterousness) and a "Lolita" (salted clues, interlinked
  motifs), with white-knuckle suspense and gross-out violence
  right out of Stephen King.

Oh yes, despite several paragraphs of complaining about how long
the subject novel is, the reviewer (David Gates) seemed to like it.

Penny