Pynchon's Interview

[Paul Mackin]

Terrance wrote:

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> My guess is that GR was read more in the 1980s than in either the 1970s
> or 1990s.
> I think M&D will replace GR to a certain extent now.

Interesting, although the 80s was the one decade when GR didn't get pulled off my
bookshelf once.  The p-list revived it--for me, that it.

M&D may be an exemplary undertaking but can it ever occupy the niche held by its
precursor? GR is much more compelling, uncanny, astonishing, to this reader.

Only time will tell if one or the other survives. There's a lot of competition.


P.