Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature

[tbeshear]

Sterling published a novel a couple months ago, "The Caryatids," from Del 
Rey, a major sf publisher. It's his first novel in about five years, a long 
gap for him.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: <kelber at mindspring.com>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature


> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There's a lot in the list that's perturbing. If Pynchon were a young 
>>> writer just starting out now, could he get his manuscript read, 
>>> published, sold? Would his (or any promising new writer's) signal be 
>>> audible amid the noise? ...
>>
>> Maybe this explains why Brice Sterling (the article's author) hasn't
>> published much fiction, at least, of late ...
>
> Bruce Sterling, sorry.  Couldn't "undo" in time ...
>