what to read next that isn't pynchon

[malignd at aol.com]

Try Gaddis.  A Frolic of His Own or JR.



Or Terry Southern.  Flash and Filigree, for instance.




Or Tom McGuane, if you've never read him.




Or Dog of the South by Charles Portis.




Or about anything by Thomas Berger.  Who Is Teddy Villanova?




Or Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor.




Or the Beckett trilogy.  Or Murphy.




Or Flann O'Brien.



I also just re-read Him With His Foot In His Mouth, a novella and stories by Saul Bellow.  It's pretty amazing.  His paragraphs go effortlessly from high to low, from slang to erudition, from wiseass to high serious.  Really great stuff.  Or virtually any of his novels.  Try Humboldt's Gift.





I could do this all day ...



-----Original Message-----
From: JD <wescac at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 2:03 am
Subject: what to read next that isn't pynchon








Please advise.  Handbook of Drawing is still not in English.  God damnit.

Darkmans was terrible.

Terrible.

I'm sorry.

Vollmann sniffs his own ass so hard I can hear it from here.  At least he tries.  Still smells like shit.


Omega Minor was fun, and worthwhile.

Summer in Termuren(sp?) was worthwhile.  But old.

I subscribe to One Store because I like their format.  It's all horrible.  One of their contributors had a national endowment of the arts grant and a gugenheim grant and reading her bullshit made me want to stab myself
 in the eye.  Good on her being able to game the system, but dear lord.


New authors, please.




 





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