IV reviewed in Publishers Weekly

[David Morris]

Some of it may be useful, but a few quibbles:

1.  AtD may be more formidable, but it hardly fits into a West vs East Coast
logic.  If we were to find a third East Coast member, it would have to be V.

2.  "Shaggy Dog" and "chamber piece" aren't usually uttered in the same
sentence.  Indeed, the sparse arrangement of a chamber piece is less likely
to be shaggy dog than a symphony.

If there is validity int thinking about a "California cycle" it probably has
more to do with a shorter, more accessible format.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Tore Rye Andersen<torerye at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668314.html?industryid=47141
>
> "Inherent Vice deepens Pynchon’s developing California cycle,
> following The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland with a shaggy-dog epic of
> Eden mansionized and Mansonized beyond recognition—yet never quite
> beyond hope. Across five decades now, he’s more or less alternated
> these West Coast chamber pieces with his more formidable symphonies
> (V; Gravity’s Rainbow; Mason & Dixon; Against the Day)...."
>
> This strikes me as a potentially Useful Observation ...
>
>
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