pynchon mention in interesting essay on 50's straight-to-paperback fiction

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http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2006/11/post_17.html

[...] The canon-maker-wannabes of respectable culture
are people you'd expect to be foot-draggers, of
course. And where Gold Medal fiction is concerned,
they haven't disappointed. Back when Friedrich von
Blowhard and I were in college, the official story of
postwar American fiction recoiled entirely from the
Gold Medal writers. At the time, the line of descent
went: Capote, Cheever, Bellow, Updike, Mailer, Roth,
Pynchon ... Actually, even Pynchon was considered a
little too poppy by the era's profs and critics. [...]


 
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