Masters of American Lit (except Pynchon)

[Carvill, John]

Mark Lawson, son of climate-change denier (and former Conservative Chancellor) Nigel Lawson, pretty much has the run of The Guardian - it's his own print version of a blog. Here he is last Saturday, previewing a long radio series he's been working on, about the post-WWII American literary giants. Pynchon is mentioned only as an aside, referenced in relation to Salinger's reclusiveness:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/06/american-literature-great-novelists