Pynchon in Peck Review

[cj hurtt]

>I don't necessarily disagree with him--I would say that the new crop of
>fiction writers who have been influenced by folks like DeLillo, Gaddis etc.
>are trying to move away from those antecedents, going more for the
character
>driven, neo-realist narrative that we know and love but incorporating
>elements of the post-modern tradition of their forebears:  these hybrid
>creations for the most part are what the new crop of Lethems, Wallaces,
>Franzens, Powers, Scholz are up to--with very mixed results--it's funny but
>all these writers are just too realistic for me.
>give me uncle sam buggering a president or a were-beaver anytime.
>
>rich

what did you think of house of leaves?