Indecision

[Paul Mackin]

Has anyone read _Indecision_  by Benjamin Kunkel. It was a book I  
found hard  to put down. What a talented writer, even though  his  
novel is about 20 somethings, who to me should be like a foreign  
country. The book takes an odd  trajectory. In very quick order the  
hero (whom Kunkel claims elsewhere is not himself) goes though a  
"maturation" process that is normally  thought to occur in reverse  
order. Of course,  It may all be irony. Impossible  for me  to  tell.  
Still a good book.

Kunkel is quoted somewhere as saying something to the  effect that  
it's impossible nowadays for literary successes like himself to do a  
Pynchon or a DeLillo. Now they get immediately sucked into the  
literary limelight and having to express opinions on everything. I  
doubt if this is  really  true.  What does Kunkel expect when he has  
his  own online literary magazine?