NY'er Lethem

[David Morris]

Right.  He doesn’t seem to have taken the assignment with much seriousness.
It’s like a gentle romp through a well-known field. Nothing groundbreaking,
mostly a chummy hug.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:37 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm all for experimentation and new ways of writing. I just find it boring
> to read and indicative of current inheritors of the mantle created by the
> Pynchons and Coovers of way back when. fiction should be dangerous and
> deranged and whatnot. it is in the New Yorker. I shouldnt be surprised
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:24 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> First of all, the author has us from before we start reading when he
>> accepts the category “fiction“ at the top of this writing. And the way he
>> goes.
>>
>> First of all (again, I begin), he quickly smacks you in the face with the
>> fact that he knows that you know that he knows he’s writing an article (not
>> a short story or a short novel) for a magazine full of literary
>> dilettantes.  So, OF COURSE he has decided to talk to us as if we are
>> insiders, people who know how to play this game.
>>
>> Clearly, he is consciously fucking with the reader.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 9:54 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> maybe the worst piece of fiction published there and that's saying
>>> something. that he name drops RA Lafferty makes it worse
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/31/narrowing-valley
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
>>