P and N content: James Wood reviewed

[charles albert]

Woods also gets a soap box in the recent NYRB.......Pynchon slags
included.....

As a critic he seems a one trick pony....


love,
cfa


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Corathers" <gumbo at fuse.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:15 AM
Subject: P and N content: James Wood reviewed


> Anybody seen the Wyatt Mason review of James Wood's The Book Against God
in
> the new Harpers? Pynchon's name (among many others) is dragged around, a
> piece of Pale Fire (the "Chum, you've got really bad halitosis" note) is
> used to illustrate the concept of the unreliable narrator, of which there
is
> a lengthy discussion, and Mason performs the neat trick of liking Wood's
> novel but flunking him on criticism.
>
> As far as I can tell it's only available in print. God bless Lewis Lapham.
>
> Don
>
>
>