Bloom on BM

[rich]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/harold-bloom-on-blood-meridian,29214/

a book I can't help revisiting every few years--wolves, apaches, gun
smoke, and the Judge

I don’t know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of
sublime fiction from the last century, it probably would not be
something by Roth or McCarthy; it would probably be Mason & Dixon, if
it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it would
probably be The Crying Of Lot 49. Pynchon has the same relation to
fiction, I think, that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry: he is
beyond compare.