IVIV reception: briefly compares IV to Dan Chaon's "Await Your Reply"

[Doug Millison]

…There are echoes and allusions to H.P. Lovecraft, Patricia Highsmith,  
Peter Straub, Stephen King and Shirley Jackson all over "Await Your  
Reply"; however, a more apt and timely comparison is with Thomas  
Pynchon. I'm not talking about the Cheech and Chong-meet-Raymond  
Chandler variety of Pynchon seen in the recently released "Inherent  
Vice," but the vintage paranoid Pynchon of "V" and "The Crying of Lot  
49." Chaon has produced a book that is closer to Pynchonesque than has  
Pynchon himself.…
http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/books/2009/08/23/0823chaon.html