what to read next that isn't pynchon

[David Casseres]

Or Jorge Amado, The Tent of Miracles. His masterpiece.


On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:52 PM, MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> 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 wa s 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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