NY Times Sunday Book Review

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Mon May 12 18:52:54 CDT 1997


On Mon, 12 May 1997, davemarc wrote:

> I'm also not sure what's inherently bad news about TCB reviewing M&D for
> the SNYTBR, though I confess I was hoping that the Chosen Critic would be
> John Barth.

Me too. Not only for _Sot-Weed Factor_; Barth also has openly noticed
that texts by someone called Thomas Pynchon exist. Unlike Bellow, Updike, 
Roth, Oates & Co., whose cozy duck pool of belles lettres has obviously 
never heard of someone under that name. 


Heikki












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