Chabon mentions Pynchon

[Prashant Kumar]

And her mother, Anita Desai, whose Village by the Sea is a simple,
beautiful evocation of the life of po' brown folks.

P.

On 28 October 2012 16:31, Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>wrote:

> Kiran Desai is on that list, and checks at least two boxes.
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> On 28 October 2012 10:16, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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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