TRTR: Heresy

[Mark Kohut]

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 ... 


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