Hatchet Jobs

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:03 PM
Subject: Hatchet Jobs


> The New York Times
> July 18, 2004
> 'Hatchet Jobs': Smash-Mouth Criticism
> By JOHN LEONARD
>
> HATCHET JOBS
> Writings on Contemporary Fiction.
> By Dale Peck.
> 228 pp. The New Press.
>
> Thomas Pynchon
> in ''a 30-year writing career hasn't produced a single
> memorable or even recognizably human character.''
>

I don't think that 228 pp. are enough to analyze this huge number of
characters, and I have strong doubts that Peck delivers any proper 
analysis of one character at all.

Otto