Telegraph Avenue (was RE: Rebecca Solnit on San Francisco)

[Monte Davis]

Repeating with emphasis:  "NO LESS HIS OWN WRITER for being as Pynch-y as
can be THIS TIME AROUND." Not lesser, not copy-cat, no ranking or hierarchy
asserted or implied. Chabon's nods to TRP are conscious, smiling, and
peer-to-peer assured. If Pynchon read Kavalier & Clay, I suspect he thought:
"Damn! I could have done a LOT more with Plasticman and Slothrop's
pulp/comix weltanschauung."

Telegraph Avenue has crime and consequences skipping down the generations,
too, but that doesn't make it a copy of AtD -- or of Ross Macdonald's
California Oresteias, for that matter.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of alice wellintown
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:32 PM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: Telegraph Avenue (was RE: Rebecca Solnit on San Francisco)

Is the assumption here that the younger Chabon is a lesser P-copy-cat?

Love this novel. Love Chabon. but he's not Pynchon. But that's O-Kay.

In some ways, he's much better. I mean, who wants to wade thru Waiting for
God and Homer goes Doh! anyway, right?

Itz not impossible to say just what is meant and Rosencantz and Hamlet are
dead dear Prufrock, right?