Did this get said here? Is this known?

[Erik T. Burns]

The Intuitionist is really good. I liked John Henry Days less, but it's
worth the effort. Still planning to get to Sag Harbor and The Underground
Railroad.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>
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