Advance word of the Sunday NYTimes BR of August 23...by Walter Kirn

[Mark Kohut]

from a friend:
Not online yet.  from the upcoming print edition for August 23.
 
Kirn appreciates TRP far more than Michiko ever has: "he's our literature's best metaphysical comedian."  He writes less about the plot ("...Pynchon doesn't write plots; instead, he devises suggestive webs of circumstance whose meanings depend on the angles from which they're viewed and can seem ominous and banal by turns, like so many situations in life.  In Pynchon, the problem of distinguishing between coincidences and conspiracies, between the prosaic and the profound, is one of the defining tasks of consciousness.").

IF I remember right, Walter Kirn said (in)famously of M & D that he din;t like it--and Pynchon in general--'cause he din't like decoding....something
like TRPs books were all like unto allegories and thereby artificial[unreal, even given the surreality] as novels..............