Pynchon & journalists

[Doug Millison]

Pynchon wrote a support notice for a 1966 book by reporter, Hughes Rudd, at
http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_blurbs.html
excerpt:
"Without copping out behind idle metaphors or irrelevant plot devices, Mr.
Rudd has succeeded in telling, with all his reporter's love of accuracy, and
mastery of detail, and irony, and grace, and sometimes terrifying precision,
exactly what the hell having to be an American, now, during the years of
total war, epidemic anxiety and mass communications whose promise has been
corrupted, is really about; where it's really at."