Pynchon mention

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20000921044R

New York Review of Books

REVIEW

  September 21, 2000

  Notes of a Son and Brother
  BENJAMIN DEMOTT

  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  by Dave Eggers
  375 pages, $23.00 (hardcover)
  published by Simon and Schuster

"Enthusiastically reviewed and widely
  promoted, A Heartbreaking Work turned up
  on best-seller lists the week it appeared
  and remained on them for months
  thereafter, winning rank as a cultural event
  (paperback rights brought a reported
  $1,400,000). "It's been a long time," said
  one author, Robert Polito, "perhaps as far
  back as Gravity's Rainbow, since I've seen
  so many people on the subway reading a
  serious hardcover book and talking about
  it." Eggers emerged as a Manhattan
  presence, highly visible in media
  interviews, humor pieces in the weeklies,
  and as the editor of a literary journal
  (McSweeney's) praised by other editors
  and literary people. "