Pynchon in Peck Review

[David Morris]

A lot of bad-mouthing of some of the greatest authors ever by Mr. Peck.  
What or whom does he suggest would have been a better course than the 
tradition maligned below?

>From: "Steve Maas" <tyronemullet at hotmail.com>
>
>From Dale Peck:
>
>"Again, this is not meant to malign the aforementioned writers. I don't 
>want to suggest that they are uniformly talentless or misguided; or that 
>there is a conspiracy among them, or among them and the editors of The New 
>Yorker or Harper's or The Paris Review; or that they invest any of their 
>energy in excluding others from the upper echelons of the literary world. 
>All I'm suggesting is that these writers (and their editors) see themselves 
>as the heirs to a bankrupt tradition. A tradition that began with the 
>diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses; continued on through the 
>incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of 
>Nabokov; and then burst into full, foul life in the ridiculous dithering of 
>Barth and Hawkes and Gaddis, and the reductive cardboard constructions of 
>Barthelme, and the word-by-word wasting of a talent as formidable as 
>Pynchon's; and finally broke apart like a cracked sidewalk beneath the 
>weight of the stupid--just plain stupid--tomes of DeLillo."
>

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