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[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, BURR is good but Vidal could never get any of the fictions of late modernism, pynchon nor Barth. Only Calvino if he counts. He basically was quite old-fashioned in his judgments of fiction, nineteenth century. 

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> On Sep 26, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Blast from the P-List past....
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> Reading BURR I can appreciate why Vidal might have been a tad bitter about the outcome of the 1974 Pulitzer process and dismissive in his take on GR....BURR is a remarkable work which, had it been nominated in any other year, would have been a prohibitive favorite for top honors.
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> love,
> cfa
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>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Recently read Burr by Gore Vidal, and saw a great doco about him. Then tried to read Gone Girl as a light change of pace...not...now reading Blood Meridian for the second time. Unbelievable...
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>> 
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com-
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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