DFW on NPR

[Meg Larson]

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| From: Paul York <psyork at english.umass.edu>
| To: pynchon-l at waste.org
| Subject: DFW on NPR
| Date: Tuesday, May 20, 1997 10:01 AM
| 
<snippage of very eloquently put Obs.>

| It's not like I spend every waking hour thinking about Pynchon's books, 
| it's just that Pynchon is one of those writers whose work seems to 
| involve a long-term commitment.  Though I just finished reading _IJ_ 
| earlier this spring and do plan to read it again over the summer, I 
| don't think I would yet make that kind of statement about DFW's work.
|
Not having read _IJ_, I can still relate to your Obs. that reading Pynchon
is a long-term commitment.  Out of curiosity, can DFW be re-read, as many
times, for as many different reasons, and in as many different ways as TRP?
 I commented off-list to Doc Thompson that while I'm making my way through
M&D, a certain large book, by a certain reclusive author, with a blazing
yellow sun on the cover keeps chiding me: re-read ME, re-read ME, re-read
ME.

There aren't too damn many books that can do that to me, and maybe TRP is
the only author whose work can do that to me.

Am I an aberration, or does TRP do this to others???
 
| Hoping some of this makes sense,

|Makes more sense than ya think.

Meg