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

[Markekohut]

Chabon must have been promoting one of his books at this time and I think I also remember this:
A daily book trade piece interviews promoting authors and asks one question I love which iVe never heard elsewhere: What book would you like to reread as if for the first time? I believe 
Michael answered AGAINST THE DAY. 

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On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:05 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

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