Pynchon mention in article re young German writers

[joeallonby]

>> is it possible to have an inferior version of BE Ellis
>> when the original itself is pretty much the epitome of
>> inferior?
>> 
>> rich
>> 

I don't know. I thought American Psycho was pretty funny satire.

The whole Hughie Lewis/Phil Collins/Whitney Houston thing was hilarious. So
was the guy that he described killing but kept popping up. "I had dinner
with him last week." The sadism, violence, and misogyny are so exaggerated
that it has to be taken as a put on. He seemed to be deliberately setting
out to prove the Supreme Court wrong by demonstrating that the written word
could be obscene.  It should be taken about as seriously as a G.G. Allin or
A.C.  record, with a little more finesse. It's not great art, but in
comparison to the Grisham, Clancy, and King swill that people read it's not
inferior.