Quite unusual p reference

[Doktor Kongo]

Haven't read 'Zoo Time' yet, but apparently its protagonist is named Guy
Ableman?

Am 17.06.2013 14:03 schrieb "Markekohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
>
> In Howard Jacobsen's ZOO TIME, a very funny satire of publishing and
writers there is this from the writer-narrator: "  A rule of thumb when
choosing a name is that it should look arresting on the page. I'd never
been a Bill and Mary novelist [which might be a direct slam at a novel I
know as well as a general slam] . Life is banal enough, in my view, without
a writer replicating it. But you can also strive too hard. Beaufield
Nubeem, for example, or Tyrone Slothrop." .....
> A bit on:
> " in fact I only choose a name for its sound and appearance, not its
meaning. Only after the reviewers had been to work did I know why I'd
called X, X. And by that time it was too late to disabuse them."
>
> Earlier, he does a two page riff on how novelists today are doing
scientific research---climate scientists as protagonists, the barb [
against McEwan among others] which I might send around re our science in
fiction thread if I can get it scanned. [ but it is not so relevant except
to score   satirize trendiness in writers]
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
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