Impenetrable and Onanistic

[Henry]

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Cormac joins Oprah's club
McCarthy is giving Winfrey a rare interview, but what surprises some is that
she picked up his bleak book 'The Road.'
By Eric Miles Williamson, Special to The Times
June 4, 2007
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What often passes for high "literature" today is writing that is
impenetrable and onanistic: self-enclosed systems of game-playing that only
the author and a small band of professors and masochistic devotees
understand (or claim to understand). Of course Winfrey would never pick
William Gass' "masterpiece" doorstop of a novel "The Tunnel." Why should
she? Who can read it? And Thomas Pynchon? He might be smarter than the rest
of us mortals, but that doesn't mean he's communicating anything to us other
than the unpleasant reality that he can't seem to stop writing volumes of
brilliant gibberish, and the world will be none the worse when John Barth's
books are all out of print.
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Henry M
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