Intriguing Article Title

I get a print edition of LA Times' Sunday paper delivered each week. The thick Sports section is surprisingly light on reading content, while the thin (and possibly my favorite section) Arts & Books section is regularly relatively dense. Yesterday, my birthday of all days, the following title caught my attention:

Say what?

I read through the entire article and am inspired to eventually pick up the novel in question, A Little More Human by Fiona Maazel.

Ms. Maazel's website is neat ("Rhymes with Gazelle" is the sub-title) and has a link to the article above. The story is out-there in the sense that we're interested in, but really this is the first time I've found an article written about a woman writer being compared to Pynchon.

Of course there are wild, digressive, blitz-krieg lady writers either inspired by or similar to our man Pynchon, but I haven't been notified of any. Is that weird or a sign of the times? Maybe not everybody aspires to write spiraling and borderline dissolved narratives...

Anyway, the final sentence of Jim Ruland's review sums up bot the work in question and a Pynchon novel pretty well:

"A Little More Human is a character-driven work of literary fiction

that also happens to be a thriller guided by a web of intrigue with 

an ending that not even a mind reader could see coming.              "