The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[David Gentle]

> On Feb 24, 2009, at 9:16 AM, David Gentle wrote:
>
>>> Updike Schmupdike!
>>> Why do these slavering articles on Updike (and Roth) in the English
>>> press always discount, in fact often fail entirely to mention,  Pynchon?
>> Because they're not about him? And he's not dead yet?
>>
>> David Gentle

> I'm sorry, this is a semidiotic discussion of signifiers &  "difference", 
> abuse is two doors down and to the left.
No abuse intended. I just don't see the point in getting up in arms because 
an article that's not actually about Pynchon, particularly one that involves 
relatively mainstream literature, doesn't feature him.

David Gentle

ps do you happen to have a licence for my pet cat Eric?