So obscure even we didn't notice

[B C Johnson]

Gilbert Sorrentino, a Brooklyn-born poet, novelist, literary critic and professor whose erudite work drew frequent praise and occasional scorn but never a wide audience, died on Thursday in Brooklyn. He was 77 and lived in Bay Ridge.
Of more than 20 literary works, his most commercially successful was the novel "Mulligan Stew," which was named by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1979. A reviewer, Malcolm Bradbury, described it as a "neo-Joycean concoction" about a "failing, if not failed writer."  (yesterday's Times)

"[. . .] and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink.  Cheers!"  (Mulligan Stew, p. 445)
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