OFFLIST Re: Richard Poirier--RIP

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 17:29:20 CDT 2009


If you want to send along a mailing addtress, I can send along a copy
after the weekend ...

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Robert Mahnke<rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright, now I'm interested.  Where is his review/essay on GR?
>
> On 8/18/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> rich:
>>
>> > some good essays on Pynchon, particularly GR
>>
>> - and the wondrous thing is that those 'essays' were really just
>> reviews of Pynchon's novels. I would go out on a limb and say
>> that Poirier wrote the most insightful reviews Pynchon ever
>> got. The review of GR in particular is simply astounding. It
>> never ceases to amaze me that Poirier 'got' so much of GR in
>> a review which was published merely two weeks after the novel.
>> None of the early reviews of M&D and AtD come close to what
>> Poirier achieved in that review.
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