wrote Ernest:
>Alison Croggon ---
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>Seems that yes the american novel has been diminished to minimalism and
>surreal pop art with Don Delillo and others. Still, there are a few others.
>William Styron, Updike. Thomas Pynchon is a traditionalist and totally
>unapproachable by journalists. An interesting novelist.
There's some other, more interesting novelists at work in the US right now,
for example, among the older more established ones, there are the (very
different) likes of Paul Metcalf or Charles Johnson or Robert Coover, and
among younger ones I'd recommend William T Vollman and Evan S Connell.
Pierre
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