Chabon mentions Pynchon

[alice wellintown]

Looking into the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award we
find women, such as
Pearlman, Egan, Mantel ...winners of the award these last three years,
and, women of color, men of color, Jewish men ...not too many dead
white males or soon to be dead white males. This trend is not only
obvious at NBCA. so I wonder why the white men, DFW, Pynchon ,
Delillo, McCarthy...seem to get the academic nod, the spot on the
syllabus? Has it more to do with how literature is studied and less to
do with who reads across the sexes?