Wheat, chaff, stalks, seeds

[alice wellintown]

Another member of the crop, Colson Whitehead, has recently turned away
from his more Pynchonian stories: Sag Harbor. Nice place, Sag Harbor.
No cartels, no B&N, no McDonalds.

>
> Well, Pynchon is admittedly a slow learner, some achieve wisdom earlier than
> others. That Pynchon has not hit upon the secret of populatirity is another
> issue. He is a writer of another generation. His time may have passed.  He
> is not forgotten by the current crop of literary novelists however. In
> Generosity by Richard Powers the adjuct writing instructor dreams he is in a
> Pynchon novel. The context is the formation a cartel to control the human
> genome. In Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City much of the story takes place in
> an upper east side apartment that seems "bigger on the inside than the
> outside." Incidently that apartment is pretty close by the Lexington Avenue
> B&N where the November do is to take place.
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