The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[malignd at aol.com]

<<Perhaps (and this is only a suggestion) McEwan finds Pynchon too 
difficult. Perhaps he is not considered as one of the peaks of American 
letters because, for writers like McEwan, he is too 'cult' and 
'obscure'. If Mason & Dixon was too difficult for Jonathan Franzen then 
what are we to expect of a writer like McEwan?>>

This is very unlikely.  Whatever you think of McEwan and Franzen, 
unintelligent they are not.  If Franzen said that, he likely mumbled it 
over a tongue stuck in his cheek.