Misc.Appetizer, to invigorate posters into reacting, kinda like chum....

[Mark Kohut]

yeah,,,,,that might be my first enemy-making charge: his fiction is sometimes nicely embroidered non-fiction
and stand-up comic set pieces..........
 
Except that I think his famous essay on a late Updike novel, reprinted often, is ...........simply wrong.
 
And, he is more like Updike, sea-changed, than he ever would admit...
 
"Yu think I diss Updike, you shoudda heard Wallace"----Franzen on book tour..........

From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Misc.Appetizer, to invigorate posters into reacting, kinda like chum....


Haven't tried DFW's fiction yet. His essays are quite wonderful.  I've been avoiding the fiction out of fear that the numerous dissenters are right, but ultimately one must decide for oneself, no?


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

before I start posting on TR, Pt2, C2.....
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>Have been reading Infinite Jest.  He ain't no Pynchon.
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>And I'd rather reread Gaddis; infinitely deeper (and depth matters) ; and read many other less proclaimed writers. 
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>I mean.....some set pieces of non-infinite pleasure and insight.....into depression, say,
>(but done better by Styron).......and a few other things....................
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>Refute me flamingly.............
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