Chabon mentions Pynchon

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the Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a fine, fine book and will last.....lyrical within range of such as the Great Gatsby.

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On Oct 26, 2012, at 12:55 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> (hell of nice looking also)
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>> 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
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> is that the consensus on him?
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> 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...
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> 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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> ...drive the Saab thru the airport fence, unleash the Dogpile zeppelin
> to float towards Utah, and earn some number of hours of community
> service...
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> - where the bee sucks, there suck I