Inherent Vice review New York Magazine

[Mark Kohut]

So everyone is talking about "that scathing review in New York Magazine"
against the tide.....



--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Inherent Vice review New York Magazine
> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 10:40 PM
> Why would a magazine assign a review to
> a writer who professes a visceral hatred of the author?
>  That's just a waste of everyone's time.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:32 PM,
> Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> Sam
> Anderson hates Inherent Vice with lots of energy, verve and
> knowledge:
> 
> 
> 
>         Incoherent ViceMy Thomas Pynchon problem.
> 
>         Add a Comment
> 
>         • By Sam Anderson
> 
>         • Published Aug 2, 2009
> 
> 
> 
>         This is probably going to make me sound, yet
> again, like a
> 
>         Neanderthal shouting from the back of the
> classroom, and might
> 
>         even destroy my career and end a few
> friendships and scandalize
> 
>         my children and cast shame upon my
> ancestors—but I have
> 
>         something to confess. After years of deceiving
> myself and others
> 
>         (felonious head nods in grad seminars, forced
> cocktail-party
> 
>         chuckles), I have decided it’s time to stop
> living a literary-critical
> 
>         lie. There is no easy way to say this, so here
> it is. I hate Thomas
> 
>         Pynchon.
> 
> 
> 
> http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/58182/
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