Pynchon mention in Salon.com article

[Doug Millison]

Yes, certainly not a very deep treatment of the subject.
-Doug

At 6:09 AM +0200 8/12/00, Otto Sell wrote:
>So it sounds when someone has understood next to nothing.
>Otto
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>Subject: Pynchon mention in Salon.com article
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>>  "The death of the Red-Hot Center
>>   From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through
>>  multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and
>>  your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960."
>>  By Laura Miller
>>
>>  "Editor's note: This week Salon publishes its second book, "The
>>  Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors," a guide to the
>>  best and worst of contemporary fiction authors. Today, we present the
>>  introduction to the "Reader's Guide" and two of the book's 225 author
>>  entries, on Stephen King and Alice Walker."
>>
>>  http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/08/11/guide_intro/index.html
>>
>>  excerpt:
>>
>>  "However, a handful of literary novelists have been intent on
>>  conveying the media-saturated texture of contemporary life, most
>>  notably Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, perhaps the most critically
>>  revered writers of fiction working today. These authors depict a
>>  world of disorienting complexity and outlandish, even absurd events
>>  often directed by unseen, sinister forces. They pack their hefty
>>  novels with science, history, philosophical ruminations and dozens of
>>  characters, techniques that earned them the epithet "encyclopedic."
>>  The encyclopedic novelists borrowed material and themes from all
>>  corners of high and popular culture, but particularly from the
>>  intellectual vein of science fiction, a genre with a tradition of
>>  speculation about the nature of humanity and about the more monstrous
>>  aspects of complex technologies and the societies that create them.
>>  (Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" was nominated for a Nebula, science
>>  fiction's most prestigious award, in 1974.) The visions of writers
>>  whose work resides solidly within the science-fiction genre --
>>  William Gibson and Philip K. Dick in particular -- gained wider
>>  audiences as readers found startlingly prophetic reflections of
>>  contemporary life in their fantastic and often outright paranoid
>>  scenarios."

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