John Hawkes

[Cat Hamilton]

Could someone tell me a little about John Hawkes?: What sort of writer is he 
and what other writers do his fans often like?

--Cat


>From: MalignD at aol.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Coover
>Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:59:35 EST
>
>In a message dated 3/27/2002 2:39:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>fqmorris at hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> > <<I haven't read any Coover yet, so I searched a bit for descriptions of 
>his
> >
> > work. >>
>
>And:
>
><<There are those who find the works of William Gaddis, William Gass, John
>Barth, Thomas Pynchon, John Hawkes and others of this group of middle-aged
>Northern and Midwestern WASPs to be more fun to discuss as theory than to
>read, and there's no denying that Coover shares their bias for 
>self-conscious
>technique over content and narrative.">>
>
>Dismissing five writers in three sentences.  You want to trust someone like
>that, feel free.
>
> > I'd say read The Public Burning.  It's a lot more fun to read than to
> > discuss.
>




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