the future of fiction?

[Mark Kohut]

I believe it was Stanley Elkin who wrote that he was interested in his fiction in the physics
  of personalities..........

Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
  > In the first hundred pages or so, there is no physics at all.

There's scarcely more in the remainder of the book. The title is a fine
invention -- it stuck in my mind long enough to make me to borrow the book
from the library -- but not a good guide to the "contents."

Possibly amusing sidelight: yesterday at the publishing/gossip weblog
GalleyCat, an item on Rivka Galchen's first novel "Atmospheric Disturbances
and Other Meteorological Phenomena" sketches her whiz-kid credentials --
English degree, medical degree in psychiatry, MFA, acting, etc -- and
continues:

"..it's both inevitable and sad that Galchen's book will likely garner the
same backlash that greeted Marisha Pessl last summer. Because lord help you
if you're young, female and want to write a - gasp! - novel of ideas that
tries to bridge science and literature..."

Hey, we wouldn't want any casual pigeonholing, would we? Except that the
last line makes me wonder if the writer has actually *read* Pessl's book, or
if the two books have anything in common except a sprinkle of science in
their titles... 




       
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