So the three novelists Nabokov praised who are still alive are Edmund White, John Barth and Herbert Gold. Nabokov had Pynchon as a student but I don't think praised him. Also, tangentially, Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a student.
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You, the game theory thread guy, and the dilbert dude
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From the netherworld, sure.
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Pynchon? I can’t think of any others
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His wife graded Thomas Pynchon’s papers at Cornell
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All the names I come up with are dead. Roth. Vonnegut. Updike. John Barth? He's still alive.
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Edmund White is one.
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He also liked a Salinger story but JD is dead. But John Barth is alive. Lost in the Funhouse.
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I believe Nabokov’s direct quote was, “Chuck Tingle, Chuck Tingle and Chuck Tingle.”
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