Re: Book Review of Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

[Tom Beshear]

Most MFA writing I've seen is realist prose. Carver is a much bigger influence on those folks than TRP, DeLillo or anyone like that.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Sacha 
  To: Phillip Greenlief 
  Cc: rich ; Prashant Kumar ; Dave Monroe ; pynchon -l 
  Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 2:30 PM
  Subject: Re: Book Review of Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon


  I imagine it taking him much longer to compose that rant than the alleged six hours it took him to read GR. That he poses this obviously fabricated figure as an argument for the novel's lack of substance is absurd, especially judging by his bio, which seems to indicate that he considers himself a serious critic. But I guess it's more cogent than some of his other arguments, which include supposed "hipster" sentimentalities, that it's "low-grade MFA writing", or that it's "boring as shit".




  On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:

    From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>

    one wonders why go to all the trouble blathering on about something you hate.





    PG:


    absolutely - in my own experience of composing reviews, i have never been interested in tearing something to shreds - i'd much rather write about something i'm excited about and would like to share with others. he certainly is working very hard to tell us how right he is and how wrong pynchon and all his admirers are ...


    the things that bugs me the most is the smarmy glee that he seems to exhibit while dis-ing TRP. typical holier than thou, i'm the smartest motherfucker in the room antics that so turned my stomach in graduate school.

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