Tracking the ever-elusive Great American Novel

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Lighten up Mal. You're as entitled to your opinions as anyone else is, 
and your scattershot crankiness and diatribes can be a real hoot, but 
it is just friendly book-banter after all.

Speaking of which, maybe you could clarify why you'd label (and 
dismiss) Toni Morrison's work as "[s]elf-consciously ethnic 
literature", though not Philip Roth's? (Or Pynchon's for that matter.)

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On 24/05/2006, at 7:35 AM, MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> << Not sure that you're really all that competitive with Margaret 
> Attwood in
> the talent or taste stakes there, Mal. >>
>
> Probably not, although I don't know what you're talking about. 
>