SPAM ALERT Alice Munro, new Nobelist

[Mark Kohut]

A tidbit of my personal reading life that is irrelevant to almost everything. There was a time
in the last, what, eight years since Against the Day?, when I read and reread Pynchon, that I would
read some Alice Munro (and Chekhov) inbetween. As a kind of polar opposite ala the Naive and Sentimental in that seminal continuum of understanding---except for quality--in most ways:
Virtually no erudition in the text. No allusions, nor hidden associative-allegorical structures or fragments-- that I could see. 
( Chekhov wrote some fictional responses to fellow Russian writers). 
Just what Pynchon does not do nearly as much of, as we've discussed here: Deep observant 
natural psychology of lives, so well-rounded and implicated on her pages. In a non-hysterically-real, very real world. 
 
Have you wondered today whether Pynchon has read her much? Caught her in The New Yorker anyway?

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:06 AM
Subject: Alice Munro, new Nobelist 

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discussed a bit one or twice on the plist. So fine.
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