Pynchon mention in DF Wallace article

[Darcy]

On 28/01/2000 6:21 PM or thereabouts, Doug Millison
<millison at online-journalist.com> intoned:

> http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20000210039R
> 
> I haven't read it in detail yet, but skimming through, Pynchon's name
> jumped out. The article is called "The Panic of Influence" by A.O. Scott, a
> long essay about _Brief Interviews with Hideous Men_ and Wallace's other
> books.

This is actually a pretty good essay on Wallace.  While I think Scott goes a
little too hard on bandana-boy (though probably most p-listers would say he
cut Wallace far too much slack), there's an awful lot of really good
analysis here.

Back to lurk mode,

- Darcy

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