Pynchon's Interview

[Dave Monroe]

Beyond some exhibition catalogues, the only books I
brought with me are V. and a Norton Critical ed. of
The Waste Land.  This is no doubt of a piece with
calls to change the national anthem to something
easier to sing.  No Protestant Work Ethic there, and
freedom, as in, "O'er the land of the free," is
something continuously to be struggled for, dammit. 
Pynchon and Eliot and Joyce and James and Chaucer and
Milton and Shakespeare and ... are just too hard to
read, a nation whines.  The Dumyazization of America
...

--- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> A recent Boston Globe article noted that Pynchon's
> star in the academy (along with TS Eliot) is 
> dropping, whereas writers like John Steinbeck are 
> hot in terms of what students are studying and what
> not.

But can you find a link to that article?  Am on a very
slow connection, and a very precarious keyboard here,
first time I've ever used one of these laptop pads
instead of a mouse, so ... 


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