Boring holes
Scott Weintraub
scottw at wam.umd.edu
Mon Sep 11 20:02:00 CDT 1995
A bunch of people sent me e-mail about the Pynchon/DeLillo class that I'm
taking and one asked for a list of the books we are going to read so I
decided to post it here seeing as a few other people might be interested.
The actual name of the class is Major American Writers After 1865.
Pynchon and DeLillo happen to be the chosen ones this semester. I am
returning to college after taking some time off and after switching my
major from Computer Science to English, this class was a nice treat.
We read the following books in this order: "V," "The Crying of Lot 49,"
"Gravity's Rainbow," (part 1 only) "Vineland," "End Zone," "Great Jones
Street," "White Noise," "Libra," and the short story "Pafko at the
Wall." I also picked up "Slow Learner." It isn't required and he won't
discuss any of the stories in class but he recommended we read it on the
side at some point.
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* Scott Weintraub - scottw at wam.umd.edu - College Park, Maryland *
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* "The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty *
* heroics, low comedy, and pointless death." -Kurt Vonnegut *
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