the old farts calling the incorrectly boiled hard-boiled eggs smelly

[Joel Katz]

chabon and eugenides?  those guys are gay, man.  i meant the corrections, 
solo.  that's the book every mfa dweeb following carver and the 
revolutionary road wanted to write.

and yeah, right, like pynchonesque virtuoso whimsy isn't 'traditional,' at 
this point.  (i bet pynchonesque is in the dictionary by now).  and what's 
the matter with dysfunction, anyway?  o will you please stop disagreeing 
with me?  will you?  please?


>From: "Richard Romeo" <r.romeo at atlanticphilanthropies.org>
>To: "Joel Katz" <mittelwerk at hotmail.com>,<pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: RE: the old farts calling the incorrectly boiled hard-boiled eggs 
>smelly
>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:28:31 -0500
>
>um, like, guys, i haven't really wanted to be the one to, you know, like,
>tell you, but....
>
>
>this is why the corrections is my vote for what a real book looks like 
>today, indeed, what a
>masterwork on a par with GR looks like today, and why the meta shit should
>best be left to the movies (e.g. demonlover, irreversible, prototypes of
>what movies will look like in 20, 30 years).
>________________
>
>[Richard Romeo] maybe you like frazen or maybe your saying this is the best 
>we can expect, who knows with you fella--you are a meta-person, mr 
>mittelwerk, and that is not a criticism (why argue with a ghost?)
>I think the trend for the chabons, frazens, wallaces, is let us take a 
>smidgen of excess, a taste of some road less traveled, a place, issue, and 
>other obscure ephemera, and bully into some neo-realist frame, and make it 
>500 pgs (eugenides, lethem you can add here) and what you got is neither 
>strange or mysterious nor a coherent stew of traditional lit with a story 
>and a dysfunctional family. i.e. most American fiction is god awful dull, 
>neither more pricks nor kicks. Can't enjoy your phantasms while licking 
>your grandmother, eh, mr M?
>Respectfully
>rich

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