Ross MacDonald

[Mark Kohut]

Mike,

I had not heard/read anything of this from MacDonald either. But I have
read some of his conversation and he was a very sharp focused dude.

And I have read him and
I think *Against the Da*y provides some circumstantial evidence Thomas read
(some of) him too. I mean TRP's Santa Barbara and Ross's, a coincidence?

Mark

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 2:55 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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