IVIV reception: briefly compares IV to Dan Chaon's "Await Your Reply"
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 23 07:31:43 CDT 2009
Interesting revies. I have read an earlier novel of this guy's so I follow him on twitter. He posted this about the review: Pynchonesque?
--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> Subject: IVIV reception: briefly compares IV to Dan Chaon's "Await Your Reply"
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 12:44 PM
> …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
>
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