Jennifer Egan on TRP and the Nobel Prize

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

I guess I should provide some context. The interviewer writes
that according to Egan, it would be a huge surprise if an
American writer won the prize. Then he quotes her, starting with
the TRP bit I translated. She continues: "My favorite is Philip
Roth who has maintained a high standard. A wild card might be
Don DeLillo."

FWIW, according to LA Times, Egan "is not shy about looking to
such writers as Marcel Proust and [presumably earlier] Thomas
Pynchon and John Updike and Philip Roth as inspiration."
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/29/entertainment/la-et-jennifer-egan-20110429/2


Heikki

On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, rich wrote:

> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >
>