Pynchon mention

[Doug Millison]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,217-2001220816,00.html
excerpt:
Could it be that accessibility is a dirty word for many literary pundits?
Certainly the great postwar movements in literature - the nouveau roman in
France, the formlessness of much American beat literature, the disjointed
anti-narratives of John Barth, Donald Barthelme and Thomas Pynchon - helped
marginalise the conventional novel, depositing it in that critical file
marked Antiquated and Reactionary (in much the same way that all tonal music
was regarded with great suspicion by the Modernists who controlled the
central bastions of musical taste after the war). But though tonality has
finally made a comeback in classical music circles, the idea that fiction
can be both popular and serious is still, critically speaking, something of
a hard sell.