Pynchon mention in SF Chronicle

[Doug Millison]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/27/DD110534.DTL

Adolescence As It Really Was, Zits and All
David Kipen
Wednesday, September 27, 2000

review of
CHERRY
By Mary Karr Viking; 276 pages; $24.95

[snip]

"There was no predicting that any of this would work on the page. 
Most writers have spent a lifetime ducking these words, except maybe 
in dialogue, and wondering why they keep wasting our time by still 
occurring to us at all. How were we to know that Karr's uniformly 
apposite references to 19th century poetry or Thomas Pynchon's ``V,'' 
when coupled with her judicious deployment of words like ``hork'' and 
``boner,'' could yield such profound pleasure? It's like some 
foolproof stink-bomb recipe that only the coolest lab partner ever 
would think to try. " [snip]
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