Pynchon in Peck Review

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

Reads like the effort of someone who flunked out of a Dubuse work 
shop.......I hope the man never saw it before he passed on.....

I will try to get a hold of Grendel Boy's song along the same 
theme......



love,
cfa
> dale peck?
> dale cooper, fbi agent?
> gregory peck?
> i think the man does not like metafiction. here's an example of what
> he can write:
>  http://www.echonyc.com/~meehan/PECK/Peck.html
> 
> hm. what can i say. he gets sentencious even in his fiction,
> apparently (if that's fiction). well. i'd say he'd suggest hemingway
> and carver and possibly himself. writers he'd like to emulate and who
> learned a lot more than he did from the writers he despises.
> 
> 
> 
> DM> A lot of bad-mouthing of some of the greatest authors ever by Mr.
> Peck.  DM> What or whom does he suggest would have been a better
> course than the DM> 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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