V-2nd - Chapter 10, Part II: What is Man?

[Mark Kohut]

There is Pynchon's letter defending McEwan against the plaigarism charge...

McEwan, like Pynchon, was school-smarter in math and science than many 
others...they are
interests...

I think McEwan's most famous and successful later works are overrated...

However, I did read some earlier ones, started at the beginning, and I might bet
that whatever friendship they have, started back then with some mutual concerns
and even styles---before McEwan went the Franzen-style way..........

One early story uses V..a bit, i say....McEwan's early psychoanalytic-influenced
grand guignol fiction is a cousin of early Pynchon's, I also say...

McEwan was published in America in New American Review, among other places,
back in the day and I do know from a publishing friend of a lunch P was at with
writer Jerome Charyn and a woman who worked on that review and Faith Sale....
(this other woman did not know who Tom was....until GR was published)  
Barthelme was in NAR a lot....so, I've always believed TRP kept in its ambit...


----- Original Message ----
From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
To: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Fri, November 5, 2010 10:38:15 AM
Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 10, Part II: What is Man?

Thanks. The connection is mentioned in Hitch-22, but I haven't seen it 
discussed elsewhere.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 10, Part II: What is Man?


> Albert Rolls  wrote:
>> Can anyone else find a source for the memory, or a source discussing the
>> McEwan/Pynchon connection?
>
>
> gosh, it was discussed on this list...
>
>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0805&msg=126704&keywords=mcewan%2018th
>h
>
> oh, wait, that was Mark mentioning it! hmmm, well, I'll keep looking.
> Apparently this McEwan is kind of a leading light.  Maybe I'll learn
> something (he lit a joint and said dubiously)
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>
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