No novels from Roth anymore

[alice wellintown]

Mark sez,
> Shakespeare also wrote Two Gentleman of Verona.

The analogy fails to reason because Roth is in his late days, as is
Pynchon, but Shakespeare's play dates from his earlies days as
playwright, hence the  relative immaturities and crudities in
structure and poetry. Roth has been moving in this direction for some
time. And, it is certainly a positive; even the fanatic cannot deny
this. But Pynchon's last is not. The shame is that Pynchon may go out
with a wimpering puff of dope when he might go out with a bang by
doinng something novel.