Elmore Leonard? Get Real!

[Mark Kohut]

Simple common sense Get Real question of all: Who do you think are among our 
greatest contemporary (American, I guess to match this piece) writers?   Pynchon,
Delillo, McCarthy?, others?......
 
Or internationally, Grass? Saramago? Who?
 
Can some--a lot?--of what you think is great in these writers be because they
illumine our whole world, our modern selves, human nature in profound ways 
for you? Akin to Joyce, Dickens, Conrad, Austen, and others further back?
I said 'akin'. 
 
Can THAT be really said of Leonard---in the largest sense?

From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:08 PM
Subject: Elmore Leonard? Get Real!


Foax 


A couple-three people have mentioned Pynchon here, not just me. but really, imagine Elmore Leonard - for all that we do love him - being held above our man:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/27/elmore-leonard-great-american-novelist?commentpage=last#end-of-comments 
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