unexpected pynchon comparison

[Jochen Stremmel]

And Geoffrey Wolff, born the same year as TRP, certainly knew a lot about
writing – and then nobody knew about the extent of Gordon Lish's influence
on Carver's writing.

Am So., 11. Okt. 2020 um 01:30 Uhr schrieb Keith McMullen via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org>:

> his poetry is really shocking to me
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> so much more emotional and intellectual substance than i expected
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> https://youtu.be/BxW4yFlLMlw
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> > On Oct 10, 2020, at 3:50 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wow. That was a genuine eyebrow raiser.
> > When I hoovered up RC's oeuvre a decade ago I felt a kind of
> > resentment because clearly he had an outsized influence on every MFA
> > writing grad of the last 20 years, and no one should be so responsible
> > for so much middling porridge.
> > Now I've come to understand just how much of an artisan he was,
> > though, and reading the stuff he thought wasn't good enough to publish
> > confirms it.
> >
> >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 8:36 AM Keith McMullen via Pynchon-l
> >> <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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> >> “comical and ominous”
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> >>>> On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> welp, I confess to being surprised by that. i fully expected to hear
> TRP being compared to RC in exact opposition.
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