NYTBR

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Does DeLillo even review books? I thought he just blurbed them.
The writer I'd truly like to see review AtD would be David Foster Wallace. 
He's clearly one of the smartest writers around and he's written some great 
reviews; and he has a wonderfully ambivalent relationship to Pynchon's 
works, which he alternately praises and condemns. A review by DFW would 
probably be insightful as hell, damn funny, and then it would have the added 
fascination of watching a reviewer being torn in half between his agon and 
his admiration.


>From: "Mike Beiderbecke" <beider19 at comcast.net>
>Subject: NYTBR
>
>I don't think they will get a 'scholar' to review the book. It will be
>somebody they think is in the same zone. Steve Erickson (a long shot),
>Richard Powers (early stuff, anyway), John Barth (odds on), Don DeLillo
>(hmmmm, he does have a new book coming out), Robert Coover (that would be
>interesting), or maybe Jim Dodge (just because of the intro to Fup).
>Won't be Michiko, she does the daily stuff, and couldn't come up with an
>essay length review anyway. Maybe she gets the assignment and passes it off
>Phillip Roth (bwaaaaaahhaaaaahaaaaaaa)

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