Jonathan Lethem & Dick & Dickens too

[Mark Kohut]

Fielding, Dickens, Pynchon. via Lethem

I thought of 18th-century British novels by Henry Fielding and the
like when I was reading Fortress of Solitude.

A: Truthfully, I was thinking of Dickens a lot, the structure of Great
Expectations most of all. In general, George Gissing and the great
Victorian novelists -- that amplitude, the willingness to tell a story
that swallows up big chunks of the world and isn't afraid of
digression.

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:19 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reading Luck Alan & Other Stories now
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