James goes to the dogs

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Melville's late still-neglected masterpiece, The Confidence Man: His Masquerade might be a better lens to start seeing Against the Day through. I suggested that if he reread him as many such as Leavis finally did with Dickens, Pynchon's rich genius would be seen.

TCM isn't all too dark a glass to read the legacy America through ...