Naumann in the NYT

[Richard Romeo]

Is he being coy--surely he knows if a new Pynchon novel is in the offing?
He did say Tom not Thomas
Richard 
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'Europe - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do' by Mark Landler. 
_New York Times_ (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jan 16,
2005. p. 4.4

Excerpt:

[...] Realism about the United States does not mean cynicism. Many Europeans
who deplore Washington's blunt methods and go-it-alone tendencies still say
the United States can recapture its moral leadership.

"The most burning priority is to return to the due process of law in the
prisons the U.S. established after 9/11," said Michael Naumann, editor of
the influential German paper _Die Zeit_. He said that only through a full
accounting of the Iraq war, admitting what went wrong, could the United
States play a positive role in fostering democracy in the Middle East.

For Mr. Naumann, who once worked as a book publisher in New York, America's
most lasting contribution would be to reclaim its status as a wellspring of
the arts. Too many Europeans, he said, view American culture as synonymous
with raunchy television like the 'Sex and the City' series. "What I wish
most from the United States is the next novel from Tom Pynchon," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/weekinreview/16euro.html

(Note that that last paragraph seems to have dropped off in the on-line
edition. I blame the cleaner.)

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