Jennifer Egan on TRP and the Nobel Prize

[Mark Kohut]

Just seeing who was paying attention. Smile   OR
 
My, how quickly I forget. I guess it is because I haven't read
Leonard in a long while and because I saw P as parodying 
older writers.........
 
And because i too can't take a joke nor read any better. 
 
I kinda like how my posts are getting fact-checked and refuted like some Repub candidate or flat-earther.

From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>; alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Jennifer Egan on TRP and the Nobel Prize

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I was reminded of Ms. Egan's prediliction by her comparison: who else compared Inherent Vice to Elmore Leonard?.....never occurred to me...nor, I don't think, to any reviewers, except as they spoke of the mystery genre.......

http://mindfulpleasures.blogspot.com/2010/09/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon.html
Dated 9/21/10:  "Inherent Vice is lighter fare, Pynchon that reads
like Elmore Leonard."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1914982,00.html
Dated 10/1/09:  "How about a drug dealer called El Drano? It's an
anagram for his real name, Leonard. Which, let's be clear, is pretty
funny.

And speaking of Leonard, Inherent Vice is like nothing so much as an
Elmore Leonard novel with metaphysical aims. It has the same deadpan
dialogue, the same lowlife panache, the same Venice Beach–to–Vegas
locales that Leonard has touched down in. But the earthbound author of
Get Shorty doesn't go in for Pynchon's lyrical riffs about the
immemorial forces that pull the world's secret levers and keep the
dispossessed of all kinds — the poor, the nonwhite, the nonconforming
— from coming into their own."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/item_SK4b5n90X4E5Mu36GKsW9I
Dated 10/12/09:  "Inherent Vice" is the work of an anti-Elmore
Leonard. Leonard says the key to his strategy is leaving out the
boring bits. Pynchon dares to leave out the interesting stuff.

http://www.collegehillreview.com/004/0040501.html
Dated Fall 2009:  "It is little surprise, as Pynchon strips down the
density of the apparatus that Sportello must navigate and lightens the
tone in ways that bring some sections of Inherent Vice closer to the
comic ambience of Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard than to the menace of
Hammettish/Chandlerian California."
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