Michiko hearts Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

*The Death of Truth* is a short book in which only three writers of fiction
are quoted--by a woman who has read
many, many of the best of our time--Pynchon gets the most space and another
apt quote from that book
which contains everything:

"When it comes to dealing with President Trump, many of these same
Republicans simply ignore his multiplying
lies; his appointment of woefully unqualified nominees to important
government posts; his haphazard and cavalier
scuttling of decades of domestic and foreign policy; his reckless decision
making ( which often seems to emerge,
to use Pynchon's words in* Gravity's Rainbow, *from a chaos of peeves,
whims, hallucinations and all-round assholery.")


David Foster Wallace's *Infinite Jest *is cited as "genuinely innovative
and daring art" (springing from a rejection of
earlier American cliches, so to speak) but only a nonfiction essay or two
by him are succinctly used in her argument as
are a couple nonfiction bits from Roth. All well-chosen, I say.