Mason and Dixon

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Mon Oct 18 16:34:40 CDT 1999


On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, rj wrote:

> There are links to 30+ reviews at Tim Ware's Hyperarts site:
> 
> http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/reviews.html
> 
> One I was impressed by -- even though it comprises a somewhat negative
> encapsulation of Pynchon's ouevre and style (this despite the rather
> incongruous glowing commendations of the last paragraph or so, deployed,
> no doubt, for publishers' back-cover blurb purposes) -- is Louis
> Menand's 'Entropology' in the NYRB, at


I heartily agree with this recommendation. Is it anyone's impression but
mine that the NYRB tends to have on average way better reviews than other 
(at least other American) mags.

			P. 




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