Matt Ruff

[Mike Brehm]

Well, there is a character named Thomas Pynch referenced for a few pages
there and another funny bit about the book that won an award that nobody
could read...

At 02:45 PM 2/17/97 -0500, Henry M wrote:
>Any takes on Matt Ruff, who the Washington Post says is "Very much in 
>the absurdist tradition of Pynchon, Heller, Robbins, and Vonnegut" in 
>it's review of "Sewer, Gas & Electric"?  
>
>I seem to recall somemention on the p-list, particularly  vis-a-vis a 
>character in this novel who descends into the sewers of NY to hunt 
>alligators, apparently amidst many other literary 
>references/plagiarisms. But whenever the subject of this book came 
>up, I was completely unfamiliar with it and deleted any messages that 
>might have mentioned it.
>
>AsB4
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