NYTimes.com: Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85

[Mark Kohut]

I learned so much from his two books about modern writers....he had somehow read everyone, in that too-easily used phrase....

And I liked some novels....

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> On Oct 22, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jeez, I only just heard of him today! -Allan in WV where they want to take away both our pain and our pleasure pills
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> From The New York Times:
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> Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85
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> Mr. West, who managed to write again after a stroke reduced his once-Shakespearean vocabulary to a single syllable, wrote quirky novels with unusual themes and even more unusual protagonists.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/books/paul-west-writer-who-shoveled-absurdity-into-his-books-dies-at-85.html?mwrsm=Email
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