Prof. Irwin Corey on "Mason & Dixon"

[Penny Padgett]

... or not, as the case may be.

Raconteur and Pynchon co-conspirator Prof. Irwin Corey was recently 
featured on "Earth Watch", a late-night radio program on WBAI in New York.  
A friend happened to be listening and called in the following question 
(after a discussion about Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village"):

Q:  I think the good Professor is wasting his time talking about literary
trash like Hillary Clinton, but I wonder if he could expound a little
bit on the upcoming "Mason & Dixon," since he went and picked up Thomas
Pynchon's National Book Award.

A:  Oh yes.  Well I picked that up in 1974, and I said that the National
Book Award for fiction should have been given to Solzhenitsyn at the time
when he wrote his "Archipelago Gulag," which was fiction to the worst
degree.

Announcer (admiringly):  You can't mess with the man, man!

(Not to fan the "Schindler's List" flames again, but Corey also opined
that Schindler was no hero because his motive was profit, not philanthropy.)

Penny