NP but Roth. My remark below and further below.

[Mark Kohut]

And, although Roth did not have to learn how to write a magnificently
ambiguous----open, open---ending from
The Crying of Lot 49, he might have learned a little.

Pynchon, Roth, Portis, the Koens, who else rivals them in trying to show
the outright 'craziness' of America, Americans, the nation in our time?

Cf Roth/Zuckerman/the Swede talking:..."There is no connection....it's as
disconnected as everything else.......there are no reasons. She is obliged
to be who she is.
We all are. Reasons are in books....It is not rational. It is chaos".

>From one perspective, even most of America's best writers are
too......committed to rationality as the satiric base of judgment, maybe?


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Early coffee as I finished American Pastoral, Roth's masterpiece on how
America is too crazy to "understand". ..Then I remembered my first thoughts
upon waking--and I was dizzy, IRL--what will happen re Bezos' dick pics and
our blackfaced leaders?.... Still right, Philip, so right.