Pynchon mention

[Doug Millison]

http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/books/395589_novelhistory_1.html
[...]To be sure, today's postmodern writers have produced imagined
histories, but their emphasis has been decidedly on the imagined.
Postmodernists, Ms. Byatt writes, believe we cannot truly know the past,
therefore they "have felt free to create their own fantasy pasts from odd
details of names, events and places. If we can't know, we may invent, and
anything goes." Think of E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime, Mr. Pynchon's Mason &
Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow, Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, Robert Coover's The
Public Burning - which, whatever their factual accuracies and artistic
brilliance, are brazenly inventive about real events and people. [...]

The literary world strikes gold in the mountains of fresh historical fiction
06/17/2001
By JEROME WEEKS / The Dallas Morning News