Chabon mentions Pynchon

[eburns at gmail.com]

I enjoyed Goon Squad. It's playful and experimental but plot driven. 

Haven't read The Keep.

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From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:44:50 
To: Robert Mahnke<rpmahnke at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Chabon mentions Pynchon

True observation I think. I remember when THE KEEP was published. Part of the male bias is to not see women doing meta-games in any art it would seem. Think about the art world.

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On Oct 29, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. 
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> 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.
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>> Laura
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>> >From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
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>> >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.
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>> > 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.
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>> >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.
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>> >Bekah
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