Impenetrable and Onanistic

[rich]

no wonder Pynchon doesn't get nominated for the national book award with
philistines like this. i think it's notable that this column was printed in
the Celebrity section of the LA Times.

another media whore
Rich


On 6/4/07, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yvg2np
>
> 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
> <snip>
> 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.
> <snip>
>
> Henry M
> http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20070604/3cb0c17f/attachment.html>