Re: Similar authors?
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 21:03:34 -0500
> The ones listed
> were Michael Chabon, Rick Moody, and Hunter S. Thompson. I don't know much
> about these people. Has anyone read any of their work? Does anyone think
> that they would be enjoyed by someone who enjoys Salinger? I'd be
> interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
Rick Moody is very good; his "Garden State" is quite fine. Michael Chabon
had a big hit with "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," but I didn't care for it
nearly as much as I did the later novel, "Wonder Boys." (It hit the
shelves at nearly the same time as Martin Amis's "The Information," and the
similarities were depressingly similar, each about writers who just cannot
write -- or cannot write well -- and are touched pessimistically by the
spectres of age and of lost opportunities. But Amis's was acid, while
Chabon's was gentle and sad and, in a tiny way, resigned.)
Grab the Moody and see what you think. It's out in paperback, so it's not
a giant investment of cash.
--tim o'connor