Where's Pynchon on the Modern Library List?

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: "Andrew Lack"

>As a fellow alumnus (class of 2003), I can attest that at Mr. Pynchon's 
>alma
>mater, Cornell University, there are multiple courses each semester in 
>which
>young minds actually encounter any number of Pynchon novels on the 
>syllabus.
>In addition, Prof. Molly Hite, whose book on Pynchon remains one of the
>finest out there, teaches a post-modern fiction course there at least once 
>a
>year, and Gravity's Rainbow is the central course novel.

Thank God! My hopes for the future of mankind are restored. I agree about 
Hite's book ('Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon'). The Eighties 
was a great decade for Pynchon scholarship and saw the publication of some 
of the finest books on Pynchon. In addition to Hite's book from 1983, other 
good monographies by Thomas Schaub, Kathryn Hume, Tony Tanner, Thomas Moore, 
and Steven Weisenburger were published in that decade, and IMO they haven't 
really been surpassed since.
Anyway, glad to hear that "Dan" isn't entirely representative of American 
Ivy Leaguers. For crying out loud, all he had to do was open the Norton 
Anthology of American Literature, as someone pointed out, or even better: 
Postmodern American Fiction, another Norton anthology, where an excerpt from 
Lot 49 is the very first text.

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