from vargas llosa to havel to de villepin

[richard baillie]

can't think of many fiction writers who've had much success on the
political scene in recent years


On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:10:54 +0000, "Ghetta Life"
<ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> said:
> 
> Yeah, if it was really Pynchon, it makes him sound like (as MalignD said)
> an 
> idiot.  But then again, Pynchon should probably never be allowed to give 
> interviews.  His essays are nearly always awful (confused and confusing). 
> It's probably no accident that his novels take a very long time to
> emerge.  
> Extemporaneous just aint his thing.
> 
> Ghetta
> 
> >From: Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
> >
> >For the record, I'm agnostic on the whole Playboy Japan thing, since what I 
> >can fathom from the interview, it's just not interesting enough to care one 
> >way or the other (rather like his liner notes for Lotion).  If it's 
> >Pynchon, fine.  He, like most of us Americans, was probably poleaxed by the 
> >events of 9/11, and didn't have a readymade statement of purest genius 
> >available at the time.  I don't expect novelists to be great interviews, 
> >which is probably at least one of the reasons that TRP is reluctant to get 
> >into that whole mess.  And if it wasn't Pynchon, then it's just a stupid 
> >hoax.  Either way, I could care less.  Or as others have said (more 
> >succinctly), zzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
> >
> 
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