Well I just reread Vineland and the news is still bad...

[Henry Winkler]

Well I just reread Vineland and it still sux but after AtD it was better
than I remember. The light imagery in Vineland makes more sense after AtD.
Parts like the Noir Center Mall are still absolutely awful tho. I can't suss
what happened to Pynchon post-GR. Sure, V and CL49 have weak parts, but
Vineland, M+D, and AtD seem very mediocre in comparison. DeLillo and Cormac
McC also seem to have peaked. It's been downhill for DeLillo since
Underworld. Falling Man is quite bad. Same for Mayor McC after The Crossing.
Coover and Barth have been unreadable for me lately. I can't get thru any of
their recent stuff. Postmodernism is senile or dead, maybe. At least JG
Ballard is still kickin'.

Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli
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