Fwd: Exciting Pynchon news, new to me anyway: Pynchon & Algren

[Mark Kohut]

        Dear Plist,

        A perfectionist after Pynchon's own words has sent me this:

        That is all.


>> There are two typos in the quote. It's "bars on a jail cell", and it's
>> "naturalism in its American, its best sense". And there's an ellipsis
>> behind "what I do".
>>
>> Have a nice Sunday,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I know he [Algren] is behind a great deal of what I do. I only wish I had
>>> not read the book right at this time because it raises certain
>>> inescapable
>>> truths about writing, being a writer in America, that I've been trying to
>>> avoid, like knowing the number of bars in a jail cell for one thing, the
>>> whole business of reconstruction, contrivance, as against naturalism in
>>> the
>>> American, its best sense.
>>>
>>>