Pynchon list

[Steelhead]

Bonnie,

If you're into rock n' roll, read Grand Street.

If you like SF, math & new physics, and we know you do, read Ratner's Star.

Terrorists and atheletes? Well, that's Players, if you can find it.

Now, somewhere around this point, DeLillo decides he's got to be taken
seriously by those French critics, you know like Baudrillard, so he
writes The Names, which has all his old themes and as well as
"language as weapon of mass confusion" and is set in Greece and reminds
a lot of my neighbors, who work at the local pulp mill, of that
Englishman Fowles's novel the Magus...but I tell them its just their
'magination, runnin' away with...

Then, there's my favorite of the "They've got to Me Seriously at the
Sorbonne" DeLillo, White Noise, which is about how little help academics
can be in times of environmental meltdown.

Then there's Mao II, which has as its central character, someone loosely
modelled on old Ruggles.

I've forgotten Libra, the book that sucks all the conspiracy theory out
of the JFK story. (Oliver Stone originally bought the rights to Libra, but
then he went off into the Ozone with that Garrison "book.") Still Libra's
narrative structure is worth looking at, but Mailer's recent book Oswald's
Tale is better.

Steelhead