TRTR: Heresy
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 12 10:04:45 CDT 2011
He told Mr. Moore that he had only read The Sound & The Fury of Faulkner's works
while there are plenty more Faulkner there.
Once a published writer, once an NBA winner, given his (later) wife's salon-like
and other writerly connectrions, they would have
gotten a lot of free books.
I haven't read a lot of books in my library.
I would trust Mr. Moore's careful eye concerning which titles seemed not even
cracked open. As well as whether all are adjudged to be
his rather than theirs, i.e. some were hers.....
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From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 10:11:51 AM
Subject: Re: TRTR: Heresy
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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