P makes Time

[Doug Millison]

...as runner up to Time's pick for Best Novelist Philip Roth. The 
writer gets a couple of details wrong, repeats the "almost nothing is 
known about his life" myth, gives P a smarmy gloss as he gets in a 
few jabs, tries hard to make Pynchon sound hip, reprints the 1953 
photo, brings P to the attention of millions, but what a slow 
download this evening...
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.pynchon.html
"In a steel-caged, no-holds-barred match in which our country had to 
send one living writer to wrestle against the globe's Gabriel García 
Marquez and history's Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky, I'd feel most 
comfortable sending in Thomas Pynchon. "


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