one great short story writer, they say, who has complex plots it seems

[Mark Kohut]

Ish,

I was going to write my version of that insight on the morrow. Yes.
Just finished The Secret Integration, love it for the first time
(half-dismissed it because hastily stupid the first reading)
and I'm looking for your rewording of what thoughts I get down.

Mark

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:40 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> The fact that P never published a short story he'd written after these
> Slow Learners may suggests that the short story is not a length that
> he excels in. The failure of "The Crying of Lot 49", a short on
> steroids, supports this conjecture. But who knows? Maybe he's got a
> book full of shorts that will dazzle us. I doubt it though. Pynchon's
> shorts are not weak merely because of the juvenile attitudes and the
> college boy craft of fiction, they simply can't let Pynchon do what he
> does best: write hysterical high modernism.
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When one---I---think more clearly of complexly plotted short story
> > writers, and esp for UNDER THE ROSE day, I see why TRP's comparison
> > with Le Carre is less weird than my stupidity.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Alice Munro came to mind as well.
> >>
> >> 2016-02-26 11:51 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>> One restriction she had little time for, however, was sticking to a
> >>> single point of view. Almost all her stories are written in the third
> >>> person, and almost all of them access the thoughts of multiple
> characters.
> >>> Sometimes she flicks briefly into the thoughts of an incidental
> character
> >>> (in The Letter Writers it is a nosy neighbour who intrudes on Emily’s
> >>> lunch), while elsewhere she cycles more methodically through a story’s
> cast,
> >>> building a scene from multiple perspectives. Oasis of Gaiety (1951),
> about a
> >>> boozy afternoon party, is a bravura example.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
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