Ross MacDonald

[Mike Weaver]

Excuse me if this has been mentioned while I've been away. In 1976  a 
guy called Paul Nelson interviewed Ross MacDonald several times, in 
total 47 hours of conversation. Nelson died iin 2006 but in 2016 
Fantagraphics published It's All One Case, the Illustrated Ross Madonald 
Archives, 300 pages with the text all from the interviews.

Here are the relevant extracts.

"I've read both Pynchon and Updike with pleasure[...] Pynchon I like 
very much in parts. I find it difficult to get through a whole book by 
him, but I'm ready to believe that's entirely my problem, not his."

"With the exception of Nabakov,who doesn't really make mistakes - I 
think Pale Fire is a masterpiece -  so many of these guys changed their 
mode in midstream and lost me, and I think lost themselves. Pynchon too, 
used to be what I consider a highly readable and brilliant wit. I 
suppose he still is, but there were so many words it's difficult to 
appreciate it. But I think some of his stuff is marvelously funny."


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