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

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I heard Chabon onNPR---marveling over AGAINST THE DAY when new. Seemed, in his open 
Way, overwhelmed with liking it so much.

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On Mar 6, 2013, at 7:52 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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?
>