Female Pynchons?

[Anville Azote]

On 10/8/06, Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Deadly chick lit virus claims another victim
>                 by Luke O'Neil
>                 Issue 8.40
>                 Wed, October 04, 2006
>

Wasn't it William S. Burroughs who said, "Chick lit is a virus from
outer space?"

:-/

> But even more problematic, the book is thick on the page with
> incongruous literary allusions, cinematic cross-references and set
> pieces culled from famous works of art. These are devices that sound
> intriguing in theory, but Pessl flubs it. The protagonist's every
> thought is cluttered with so much highbrow meandering, it becomes
> impossible to spot the line where genuine emotion blends into
> meta-ironic, extra-literary horseshit. The anorexic plot is incapable
> of bearing the weight of its ambitions. Pessl spends at least a quarter
> of her sentences on puffed-up would-be dazzling metaphors that stink up
> the room. She simply can't get out of the way of her own wagging
> tongue. Another quarter of her text is wasted on faux-academic
> journalistic cross-referencing:
>

"Lolita" done wrong, more or less?

-A. A.