Chabon mentions Pynchon

[Prashant Kumar]

Kiran Desai is on that list, and checks at least two boxes.

P.

On 28 October 2012 10:16, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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?
>
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