Robert Taylor reqiuescat in pace ...

[Dave Monroe]

Robert Taylor, 84; critic was man of letters, connections
By Mark Feeney
Globe Staff / October 27, 2009


Robert Taylor, for many years The Boston Globe’s chief art and book
critic, died Sunday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was 84.

[...]

Mr. Taylor was at his best, perhaps, as a book reviewer. More than
three decades later, colleagues continued to marvel at his ability to
write a highly creditable review of Thomas Pynchon’s famously dense
750-page novel “Gravity’s Rainbow’’ in 585 words.

[...]

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/10/27/robert_taylor_84_critic_was_man_of_letters_connections/

Can't find GR review online, but ...

LITTLE, BROWN SET TO PUBLISH PYNCHON
The Boston Globe | April 2, 1987| Robert Taylor, Globe Staff

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8004883.html