Suck Again--Thomas Pynchon Not Insane!

[William Karlin]

 I forgot to mention this yesterday, but one of the links in this piece
goes to an L.A. Weekly article from 1986 about Steve Erickson's _rubicon
beach_ (which I hadn't heard of -- any good?  It sounds interesting.)
The article mentions that Erickson's two books both carry "a heady quote
from Thomas Pynchon hailing Erickson's 'rare and luminous gift.'"

  The article is fairly good...here's the URL:

   http://www.snowcrect.net/turn/erickson/articles/phant.html

 I recommend the suck article too...

 -will


On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Sherwood, Harrison wrote:

> Suck (http://www.suck.com/daily/97/09/08/index.html) gives the old nail
> a few well-placed smacks on the head with some Princess Di commentary
> that once again brings to mind--as if we needed to be reminded!--the
> wisdom of our boy's decision not to court International Fame, and the
> CNN/Bone-photo imbroglio of a few weeks back:
> 
> "Telephoto lenses are delicate. When people follow their outrage and
> rejection, throwing rocks at reporters and photographers, they should be
> informed by a responsible and sympathetic media commentator (who could
> perhaps speak to them from behind some sort of amplification system)
> that their sticks and stones are useless. The reporters, who are (like
> bureaucrats, secret police, or your mom) delicate people just trying to
> get by in the same market economy you are, will come right back.... It's
> a market that will, in the end, fuck their corpses too, if they're
> lucky."
> 
> (Odd, how the cadences read eerily like TRP's...)
> 
> Harrison
>