Pynchonesque Play

[Dave Monroe]

That reminds me, I really'd like to reread Second
Skin, to see if I "get" it this time 'round.  And then
there's The Lime Twig and The Blood Oranges ...

--- Elainemmbell at aol.com wrote:
> A delayed reaction to the John Hawkes comment
> earlier--I studied with John Hawkes at Brown several
> years ago and found him to be the most incompetent 
> species of human imaginable...he tortured his
> students (had several suicides to his credit),
> condescended to anyone who had a real readership
> (larger than the 2500 people who read Him), and
> vilified anyone who presumed to be in touch
> with "the language of plumbers" (his way of
> referring to anything actually happening in the Real
> World).  Whatever his gifts may be as a writer 
> he is a truly execrable man. I have ritually burnt
> his books.

No, seriously, imagine a "contemporary" fiction course
reading list consting of Second Skin (Hawkes), The
Erasers and The Voyeur (Robbe-Grillet), The Wanting
Seed and A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), In Cold Blood
(Capote), The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's
Choice (Styron), Seize the Day and Mr. Sammler's
Planet (Bellow), possibly One Hundred Years of
Solitude (Garcia Marquez), but ... well, see ...

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