TRTR: Heresy

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 12.06.2011 14:43, Mark Kohut wrote:

> In the interview with Gaddis which was circulated here, Gaddis said he 
> didn't read much contemporary fiction

We already knew that he was reading some Thomas Bernhard ("Holzfällen"). 
But the number of contemporary fiction books in his library does not 
exactly make sound his statement trustworthy ... James Baldwin, John 
Barth, Saul Bellow, William S. Burroughs, Truman Capote, Don DeLillo, 
J.M. Coetzee,  William Gass, Graham Green, Joseph Heller, Erica Jong, 
Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Anais 
Nin, Philip Roth, Updike, Kurt Vonnegut plus others I haven't read so 
far ... Why should a writer like Gaddis prefer "Underworld" to 
"Gravity's Rainbow", if not because he thinks Pynchon's style to suck? I 
mean, Gaddis also reads Updike and even Erica Jong ...

JESUSFUCKINGCHRISTALMIGHTY #


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