MICHIKO KAKUTANI

[Nushra MohamedKhan]

So, I actually like her reviews.   I like her style. She doesn't like
cartoons, but she got Michael Chabon right, and she got Toni Morrison
right on cartooning, and she praises Wallace, and she got Joseph
O'Neill right, and Louise Erdrich right, and Franzen, and Roth, and
Jeeez, she got Pynchon right too. Sorry folks, but she gets to review
the books because she is qualified and damn good at it. Sure, she's a
tough critic, but that's a good thing. Seriously, if Pynchon were to
listen to her, he's write better novels. AGTD is great, but man could
it be improved if he took out some 300-odd pages and squared it up
took out a couple few stupid plot lines and a  couplefew dozen
chanracters and a dozen or two vague re-runs of old material like that
Lew in the Tarot London stuff.

Books of the Times
Looking for a Home in the Limbo of Alaska
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: May 1, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/books/01kaku.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/books/04kaku.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/books/16book.html