Britannica on AtD

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Mon Sep 3 09:19:38 CDT 2007


Ya Sam wrote:
> Can't access the full article, but
> 
> BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007
> American literature
> ...came out with Terrorist, the fictional study of a young convert to 
> Islam who carries his jihad to northern New Jersey; the book apparently 
> sold well, however. The new Thomas Pynchon novel, Against the Day, was a 
> book utterly important to Pynchon fans and completely uninteresting to 
> those who had fallen away from the Pynchon readership cult or had never 
> joined it. As if to...
> 

It just went on to say that the  New York Times published a very 
unfavorable daily review but quite a positive Sunday one.


> 
> http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-1259531/Against-the-Day
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