Kathyrn Hume on Late Coover

[alice wellintown]

And, doesn't Hume, and doesn't Rich, make a valid argument about P and
the family? Isn't this one of the reasons many did not like VL? Isn't
this one of the reasons some of us find the California novels too much
like the Simpsons? Yeah, after all the dysfunctional fucking-up, after
all the tangled knots of pain inflicted on friends and family, not all
of it easily blamed on the forces of evil that consume us, the family,
whatever a family is, comes together on the couch to watch one more
Emersonian episode or listen to one more Alice's Resturaunt come round
again in the guitar, with feeling?