Pynchon and The New Yorker

[davemarc]

>From John Leonard's collective review "Eustace Tilley, Call Home" in the
Sunday, 2/13/2000 New York Times (pp. 6-7).  The following quote refers to
Ben Yagoda's book About Town:  The New Yorker and the World It Made
(Scribner).

Having been in the archives, though, Yagoda knows that "subversive graphic
humorists" like Jules Feiffer, Edward Gorey and Edward Sorel had to stand
outside in the cold for decades of talking animal cartoons.  That Wallace
Stevens and Robert Lowell were among the missing, and that Auden's
"September 1, 1939" got turned down.  That Grace Paley didn't get in until
1978, and that rejection slips of flabbergasting condescension were issued
to Saul Bellow, Stanley Elkin, William Gaddis, William Gass, Joseph Heller,
Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Cynthia Ozick, Thomas Pynchon, William
Styron and Kurt Vonnegut, not to mention "Goodbye, Columbus."

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