Jennifer Egan on TRP and the Nobel Prize

[rich]

gore vidal? hated pynchon and let folks know it but surely a writer
one would want to read
Egan's last book is very much in the DeLillo-Great Jones Street family
than Pynchon

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I will never read Jennifer Egan.
>
> 2011/10/6 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
>> one can agree about the IV sentiment; i'm still hoping Pynchon will
>> wind up his career in some fantastic way to wash away the rotten
>> blabber of the last two books
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
>> <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "I think Thomas Pynchon is out of the game. He hit rock bottom with
>>> Inherent Vice that came out a couple of years ago. Even Elmore Leonard
>>> at his worst outdoes it."
>>>
>>> Jennifer Egan as interviewed by Helsingin Sanomat, the leading Finnish
>>> newspaper. October 6, 2011. Translation mine.
>>>
>>>
>>> Heikki
>>>
>>
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