Heirs

[rich]

great, hardly my friend but thx. anyway
 I'm very much disappointed with the pinched world view of these
writers--it's as if there is only the mind and its perceptions in the novels
of the anointed--post underworld delillo, frazen, moody.
 vollman is quite sui generis but I agree with others comments--he writes
better fiction as nonfiction--no poet he.
I think Banville still has it and can get away with the singular narrator
because he is a poet (as I would argue is Pynchon)
 I'm reading Jean Stafford's collection of short stories which I'm enjoying
quite alot. when the New Yorker published stories worth reading
 Rich


 On 9/20/05, tony antoniadis <tony.antoniadis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> this great guy rich wrote on pynchon heirs:
>
> <delillo: best of the bunch but time passed him by
> vollman: writes too much; utterly humorless
> lethem: enuff of those fucking comics
> frazen: wants to be henry james
> dfw: quick wit but verbal vomiting teeth pulling
> moody: lugubrious & mawkish
> rich>
>
> man, let me tell you, i live in a shit-loft in brooklyn that has a
> jillion foot ceilings, wide open windows and etc, yet my cat is so
> angry at me right now that she *stunk it up* with this lung-hijacking
> saturation raid...it's so bad in here that i've considered jumping out
> the window, with her. then i read the last thing on moody, how rich
> signed it, "rich," yet when i first read the word, i thought it was
> another perjorative used to denigrate rick moody, i.e., "that rich
> fuck," and i thought about how he left it off the line, indented a new
> one with the word, like it was poetry, or worse yet a spoken word
> script where that last word is meant to bounce off your ear like a
> rubber bullet... "richhhhhh...." then i realized that he just signed
> his name. it was a good laugh for a moment; damn it, back into the
> yellow fog.
>
>
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