Chabon mentions Pynchon

[Robert Mahnke]

FWIW, I really liked The Keep, and don't recall any fizzling.  Egan played
the sort of meta games in it that get one acknowledged as a serious
novelist, but you don't see mentioned in those circles as much as you would
if she were a guy.  IMHO.

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Bekah, what are your thoughts on Jennifer Egan?  I've only read The Keep.
>  It held my interest, but the "meta" aspects of it seemed a little trite,
> and it pretty much fizzled to nothing at the end.  Haven't read her
> Pulitzer prize-winner.
>
> Laura
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>
> >Because US publishers like women to write the far more lucrative
>  "women's books"   as does Jodi Picault,  and maybe the better women
> writers,  Barbara Kingsolver,  Anne Tyler,   Marilynne Robinson etc.
> Women authors are fully accepted in the nonfiction and crime genres.
> There are a few who can slip by into praiseworthy literary fiction
> (whatever that means) - Cynthia Ozick is one.   Karen Yamashita,  (! -  I,
> Hotel )  Toni Morrison (fading),  Gish Jen (newer) are some others - Julie
> Otsuka maybe.
> >
> > Zadie Smith is still more British than American,  and the very British
> Hilary Mantel is excellent now with the Cromwell stories.  Rowling's new
> one - Casual Vacancy was … interesting but … she's no Zadie Smith by a long
> shot.
> >
> >Shirley Hazzard is from Australia now in the US - I doubt she has another
> book in her.  Alice Munro (Canada) is also aging now - as is Ozick.
> >
> >Bekah
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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