Vacation after AtD

[Ya Sam]

The critic Scott McLemee whose name is savagely scrawled on the title page 
of the notorious AtD galley has written quite a favourable review of M&D 
with a really cool illustration.

"Pynchon's reputation as a fearsomely abstruse and difficult writer is 
secure, as long as the larger reading public never finds out how funny and 
moving he can be. After finishing "Mason & Dixon," I am ready to turn back 
to page 1, to read anew Pynchon's map of "this Country cryptick and 
perilous."

http://www.salon.com/april97/pynchon970425.html

He also has a blog, in which one entry directly bears on the photographed 
object:

>From 11 October

"At the moment I am trying to figure out if it makes sense to take along the 
galleys for Against the Day, the forthcoming novel by Thomas Pynchon. It's 
almost 1100 pages long.

If not, that means I'll have to start reading it -- nonstop, pretty much, to 
meet my deadline -- almost immediately after we get back. Maybe after that, 
a vacation? "

http://www.mclemee.com/id4.html

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