MDMD[6]: Fatherhood & The Absent Author

[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	David Casseres

>I'm just a few years younger than Pynchon, 
>and when I was in college they still taught us the New Criticism, with 
>the central idea that you have to approach the work of art as a complete 
>thing in itself, without using knowledge about the author to explain it. 

It occurred to me after I posted earlier that "Entropy" was first
published in The Kenyon Review, a hotbed of the New Criticism in the
'50s.

>and there are always egregious exceptions like 
>(ugh) Mailer.

Heh, heh...Yes, this would be the counter-example!
>
Harrison Sherwood, Kenyon '82