[R. S. Gwynn]

OK, Kevin, here you go. I just finished No Fond Return of Love, which is, I think, the last of the Pym novels for me. I read my first, Quartet in Autumn, last spring and have now read all of the rest. If I've missed one, it's probably because they tend to run together in my head. Excellent Women sticks with me pretty well as possibly the best, though I did greatly admire Q in A, which is a bit different in having a set of elderly characters.

I have a grad student writing a thesis on the Pym/Larkin friendship and correspondence, and it will be interesting to discover what kind of common ground they shared. With Larkin I suspect it was the "non-boring boredom" of Pym's world, and I'm sure she likewise appreciated the tone of his poems.