Winterson (was Re: Post-Chicks)

[JL]

Derek:
>I would add Jeanette Winterson, but I can't really recommend anything that
>I would consider particularly good. She writes well, but her enourmous ego
>("I basically AM Virginia Woolf except better") is impossible to extirpate
>from the books and really gets in the way for me.
>

 I couldn't agree more.  I met her briefly after hearing her speak (on 
a promotion tour for _written on the body_) and was practically speechless
with rage and admiration for her chutzpah. That she was surrounded by 
fauning lesbians can't have helped her modesty or my attitude, but I 
didn't like that book and my opinion of the previous ones suffered 
somewhat thereafter.  And she claimed never to have read Pynchon, nor
to have the slightest inclination so to do. 

JL, the only fruit.