Did this get said here? Is this known?

[Mark Kohut]

I knew about this and had a chance to talk with him around in 07 in an informal but open-ended way. I asked what he thought of AGAINST THE DAY, and he said he hadn't made time for it yet but he had heard about it from friends who'd read it....He said many said it was so dense with  stuff, that it was good TRP had the Internet around to help write it. I demurred saying that the Internet helped us all suss out all the erudition and allusions but I believed he had been working on it long before the Internet, not just since he had finished M & D. I told him the kind of allusive and knowledgeable detail he put into ATD comes from elsewhere than looking it up online-- but which we readers could now do more easily. I believed I spoke of the pynchon wiki. He listened. 

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> On Dec 2, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've only read John Henry days and loved it.  I have a copy of Whitehead's first 
> novel but I haven't read it yet. Here's an interview with Whitehead around the time of the first novel (2001) in which he mentions Pynchon a couple of times:
> 
> http://bombmagazine.org/article/2419/colson-whitehead
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Good book,  fun, but Whitehead is no Thomas Pynchon.   Yes, I see the influence AFTER you mentioned it.   lol -
>> 
>> Becky
>> 
>> 
>> > On Dec 2, 2016, at 12:28 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Under the general Pynchon category of Good Writers Know
>> > How Good He is and Are Influenced in Real But
>> > Sometimes Obliquely Hidden Ways:
>> >
>> > Colson Whitehead is a Pynchon
>> > fan and just knowing the plot 'facts' of
>> > The Underground Railroad can lead you
>> > to see how he might have been influenced.
>> 
>> Becky
>> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
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