Yet Another Plea to Stay Pynchon-Focused

[Richard Romeo]

>   Unfortunately it is impossible to
> think of a current book
> that might rescue the p-list from its present
> moment. Please don't
> anyone say Moby Dick or Tristram Shandy. The book
> would have to be
> current and not already written-about to death. The
> fact of the matter
> is, there just isn't anything new coming out. That I
> know about anyway.
> 
> Drat.
> 
> P.
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there have been so-called big books recently issued
but they are more in the Corrections vein--large in
scope but pretty much realistic narratives, focus on
characters in that cause and effect game we call life:

Powers The Time of Our Singing,a new book called Great
Neck by Jay Cantor about a bunch of superhero friends
growing up in the 60s, Euguenides' Middlesex, e.g.

I would put Wallace in with this group and for those
that like these writers, that's OK. 

I must have too much of the Mopery gene in me. The
only recent writer I can say I was enthralled with was
WG Sebald. As for these new crop of American writers,
I think they're obsessions are unfortunately not mine.

fwiw...
rich




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