Writers remain a robust bunch

[bekah]

At 6:21 PM +0200 1/28/07, Ya Sam wrote:
>"It's hard to think of a time when a generation of novelists 
>dominated our literary spotlight for so long. McCarthy and Pynchon 
>started out in the early '60s. Updike and Roth have been at it since 
>the mid '50s; and Mailer made his debut in 1945, around the time 
>critics were looking for an heir to Ernest Hemingway and William 
>Faulkner.
>
>Writers have been forecasting their demise for years. In 1996, David 
>Foster Wallace published a slashing essay in the New York Observer, 
>which began "Mailer, Updike, Roth - the Great Male Narcissists 
>who've dominated postwar American fiction are now in their 
>senescence, and it must seem to them no coincidence that the 
>prospect of their own deaths appears backlit by the approaching 
>millennium and online predictions of the death of the novel as we 
>know it." The piece caused a stir - would this be the executioner's 
>sword? - but it was not to be."
>
>http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/28/Floridian/Writers_remain_a_robu.shtml


And from that article the following sentence perhaps indicating 
someone has read the book:

"In Pynchon's Against the Day, a potential plot to steal the Earth's 
electromagnetic current is wrapped up in the rise of global fascism 
and perennial war."

Did  John Freeman,  author of the article and  president of the 
National Book Critics Circle,  review the AtD somewhere?  Does anyone 
know?

Bekah
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