Chabon mentions Pynchon

[Michael Bailey]

rich wrote:
> Chabon is that class of today's writer who doesnt upset goes down well
> and hardly remains in the mind after the last page is done. (like
> those you list below)
> he's competent and a heck've a nice guy

(hell of nice looking also)

> and I did like some of his
> Lovecraftian short stories and Wonder Boys but he's all too much zoned
> in that New Yorker type fiction circle
>

is that the consensus on him?

if so, let me wonder this - if he published a little less and polished
a little more, distilled so to speak, would that make him a stronger
liquor so to say, ie we have a kegger of him and it's fine fine stuff
(imho) (a-and maybe, like with beer his words stay with me longer than
the average bear, i'm a slow metabolizer and my hangovers last a week
and used to overlap...but i really like the flow of his discourse,
he's like gentle and effective as Salinger wrote of Sherwood Anderson,
but wasn't that also a slogan for Fletcher's Castoria? but seriously I
think he is great!) -- and possibly that thing I look for, a writer
more interested in co-operation than competition...

and so but if we have of him a keg or a cask, we have of TRP a bonded
few bottles but also enough for a pretty good party, and like the guy
in the new Chabon (_TA_) if we find a 6 pack of Chabon and chase it
with a bottle of Pynchon we could find ourselves inspired to

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