The writer Oakley Hall passed away last week. I have his Western novel Warlock, as well as his highly readable The Art and Craft of Novel Writing. It's good stuff.
Here is Pynchon in his famous 1965 review of Warlock:
Here is Pynchon in his famous 1965 review of Warlock:
It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall.
