MISC & IRRELEVANT: Pynchon's friend, Ian McEwan, whom he has defended publicly,

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

You keep calling McEwan here "Pynchon's friend" again and again because 
Pynchon defended him against charges of plagiarism in 2006.

But how come then that "friend" McEwan, in his obituary for Updike, 
describes the landscape of US literature like this?

 > And now this masterly blasphemer, whose literary schemes and pretty 
conceits touched at points on the Shakespearean, is gone, and American 
letters, deprived in recent years of its giants, Bellow and Mailer, is a 
leveled plain, with one solitary peak guarded by Roth. We are coming to 
the end of the golden age of the American novel in the twentieth 
century’s second half. <

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/03/12/on-john-updike/

For McEwan, Pynchon seems to play in the same league as, let's say, John 
Grisham or Stephen King.

So I do not believe that Pynchon and McEwan are friends; Pynchon just 
thought the plagiarism charges - "Fascinating topic, literary theft" 
(SL-intro) - to be wrong and felt the need to utter this.



On 18.06.2016 13:38, Mark Kohut wrote:
> has a new novel coming that will be narrated from a womb.

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