NP - Jesus' Son

[Mark Kohut]

Agreed. A-and he is as wrong about the publishing industry as he is right, to use that great Pynchon 
insight, so to speak, in this lesser context. I have written something about Myers' piece, which I might
post here...

Mark


----- Original Message ----
From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Cc: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, December 7, 2007 2:07:14 PM
Subject: Re: NP - Jesus' Son

I think Tree of Smoke was overrated generally but Myers critique is
aimed more at the publishing industry. his schtick is getting a bit
old. also, it's really annoying to have a guy review a writer's
attempt at his magnus opus without ever had read any of his previous
work.

rich

On Dec 7, 2007 1:33 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 7, 2007 11:56 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>  http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/vietnam
> >
> > When a novel's first words are "Last night at 3:00 a.m. President
> > Kennedy had been killed," and the rest of it evinces no more feel for
> > the English language and often a good deal less, and America's most
> > revered living writer touts "prose of amazing power and stylishness"
> > on the back cover, and reviewers agree that whatever may be wrong with
> > the book, there's no faulting its finely crafted sentences—when I see
> > all this, I begin to smell a rat. Nothing sinister, mind you. It's
> > just that once we Americans have ushered a writer into the
> > contemporary pantheon, we will lie to ourselves to keep him there.
>
> I liked the film okay ...
>
>


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