Not Pynchon but Melanie Jackson & Lorrie Moore

[Mark Kohut]

I had learned that Ms. Jackson was also Ms. Moore's agent.
I wanted to know a bit more about Moore, since I'd liked some stories.

I learned that she was a graduate writing student of Alison Lurie's at Cornell,
early in the 80s.

I remember learning from a reprinted Lurie novel--I mentioned it here;
Real Life I think it is-- that Ms Jackson had taken over early
copyrights and become her agent.

Piece mentions that Ms. Moore felt influenced by writers like
Barthelme, Sorrento
and Pynchon. She said so in an interview. Writer mentions the odd conjunctions
of metaphors, scenes, she often uses. called "experimental" even.

Piece mentions her deep theme of America, esp American variety of
lifestyle, so to
wane prosaic.

And there is this (going out esp to those plisters who think some later Pynchon
is sentimentally about kids):
 "The ardor of youthful friendship and romance, the trust that
small children place in their parents, and, above all,
the passion that adults feel for their offspring
all represent the highest emotions she portrays: conditions of loving
and being loved
that are tantamount to secular states of grace."

Nice, imho.
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l