unexpected pynchon comparison

[Mark Kohut]

I preferred Geoff to his brother. Simply on style.

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 5:33 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > so much more emotional and intellectual substance than i expected
> >
> > https://youtu.be/BxW4yFlLMlw
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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:
> > >>
> > >> “comical and ominous”
> > >>
> > >>>> On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> 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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