RIP John Le Carre, real writer.
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 00:19:19 UTC 2020
This looks like an official picture he wanted out.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1338253472760623104?s=20
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 7:14 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:22 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1338251571969335298?s=20
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:09 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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