Word: pynchonã
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...balloted a number of select writers to pick their three favorite winners. Interestingly, four out the six books chosen were short story collections—the collected stories of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and John Cheever respectively. Only two were novels—Thomas Pynchon??s “Gravity’s Rainbow” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”—which suggests that there should be a different focus in the traditionally novel-dominated study of 20th century American literature...
...undead saxophonist, a contract killer, several drug dealers, and a dentist, all somehow connected to a sinister outfit called the “Golden Fang.”For a primer to help you decode what seems convoluted in “Inherent Vice,” look to Pynchon??s second novel, “The Crying of Lot 49,” an altogether more effective version of the same basic literary ideas. That novel is also a paranoia-infused narrative set in California, in which an (amateur) private investigator (“Oedipa Maas?...
...popularity doesn’t stem from teaching easy material—hers is Harvard’s only course that teaches Thomas Pynchon??s notoriously daunting novel “Gravity’s Rainbow” to freshmen. “I absolutely respect Professor Carpio for attacking such a difficult book. Making challenging texts accessible really speaks to her teaching ability,” says Sabrina A. Sadique, a teaching fellow for English 192p...
...prepare him “for anything, really. Perhaps if I had a career as a guy who lounged around drunk in poorly-maintained Flemish castles.” He wrote his thesis on David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” and Pynchon??s “V”: “My thesis was: these two books are awesome and here’s why. (Basically...
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