the (2 white) boys from Ithaca

[Paul Mackin]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57255-2002Jul11.html

"The intellectualization of American fiction produced one indisputable
giant, Vladimir Nabokov, and a great deal of work--always ambitious,
sometimes brilliant, often obscure and self-indulgent--by Thomas
Pynchon, John Barth, Stanley Elkin, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, Don
DeLillo and others less widely known, almost all of them white men and
many of them academics of one sort or another."