Library of America

[Mark Kohut]

Did Saul Bellow or Philip Roth need L of A. canonization?

It could only help TRP being 'taken seriously' as a writer NOT just for Academics to write about, but to read.....[which I do hear and read]

--- On Fri, 9/4/09, umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> From: umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it>
> Subject: RE: Re: Library of America
> To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 9:41 AM
> On 4 Sep 2009 at 9:35, David Kipen
> wrote:
> 
> > Dick is the bestselling volume in Library of America
> history, so they say.
> > How long before it's Tom's turn?
> 
> Well, those are two different stories... Dick was not such
> a prestigious 
> writer (no wonder that one of his novel's called
> Confessions of a Crap 
> Artist), and he needed that act of canonization (which was
> 
> masterminded, they say, by his literary heir Mr J. Lethem).
> Does 
> Pynchon really need the LoA to boost his reputation?
> _____________
> umberto rossi
> 
>