Cool titles for some hot summer reading

[Mark Kohut]

Just FYI...Salinger has been writing and writing since his seclsuion............
They are all in his agent's safe.



----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:48:09 AM
Subject: Cool titles for some hot summer reading

Cool titles for some hot summer reading
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, June 9, 2009
By SCOTT EYMAN
Cox Newspapers


Summer brings thrillers, summer brings beach reading, summer brings
James Patterson — as does winter, spring and fall.

But this summer also brings us writers who, generally speaking, don’t
write very much but are nevertheless publishing books in 2009, which
is almost certainly a good thing for everybody.

Like everything else this year, the publishing business is down –– the
figures range from 3 percent to 10 percent. The betting is that some
of these books will help reverse that trend. Or maybe not –– big books
still sell, but those without brand-name authors or topics are
suffering.

Either way, here’s what’s on tap for the lazy, hazy days of summer.

Top five books for summer

1. Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon. A riff on the private-eye genre,
with added psychedelics, by the legendary author. No, he’s not to
everybody’s taste, but he seems to be striking a lighter note than in
Mason & Dixon, let alone Gravity’s Rainbow. Even people who don’t like
him have to admit that Pynchon is one of the most influential writers
of his time. Unlike David Foster Wallace, he’s still alive; unlike
J.D. Salinger, he’s still writing. (August)....

http://www.projo.com/books/content/lb_best_summer_books_06-09-09_NLEI0BH_v11.2badb07.html