So obscure even we didn't notice

[Dave Monroe]

I noticed, though I only ever got 'round to Mulligan
Stew.  Thanks ..

--- B C Johnson <bjohnson02 at insightbb.com> wrote:

> 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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