RIP John Le Carre, real writer.

[Mark Kohut]

This stuff below in the Guardian on the press and readers' belief tha*t Spy
>From Cold* was REALISTIC and Le Carre's (and MI's) knowledge it was
'fiction', inevitably a romance in the Hawthorne & literary sense is
so revealing. So interesting in pinning art down.

My favorite early novel, as it is Jochen's, is *The Looking Glass War, *surely,
maybe, almost "realistic" and one which Pynchon must have liked a lot since
he almost borrowed, alluded to,
a whole paragraph from late in the novel.

One of the few writers Tom Pynchon ever mentioned in his prose. He may, and
from other places as well, have gotten his Russia-America pairings of
similarity via distillation of LeCarre's, eh?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89?CMP=oth_b-aplnewssandbox

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:45 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1338261957724545034?s=20
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> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:22 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1338251571969335298?s=20
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>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:09 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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