NP but N.O. BROWN, maybe?....more Shit, Money & The Word?

[Mark Kohut]

Seems Mr. Franzen may have read and is fond of Brown's connecting of shit and 
money  too.....he literalizes it in his satiric novels of "social 
realism".....which seems so... unrevealingly ridiculous when so literal
 
not to mention so long after Pynchon did the definitive 
Shit..............................seems so........late now.

From today's Wash Post review of Freedom: 
"So what is it about Jonathan Franzen and poo? In 2001, his wonderful 
breakthrough novel, "The Corrections," was momentarily stunk up by a scene in 
which a senile old man imagines his feces talking back to him. A decade later, 
Franzen's more staid, more mature, but all around less exciting "Freedom" 
reaches its comic zenith when a young man searches through his own excrement 
with a fork. What seemed like a sophomoric indulgence in that earlier tour de 
force now smells stale."