MDDM Welcome (and Cumulative Bibliography)

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'After the Rainbow'

Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive author whose last book was _Gravity's
Rainbow_ in 1973, has two novels in the works.  One is said to be a
science-fiction thriller inspired by Pynchon's passion for "Mothra" and
other Japanese horror movies.  The other book involves the Mason-Dixon line,
and Pynchon is now in England looking into the lives of Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon, the British surveyors who established the Pennsylvania-
Maryland boundary in the eighteenth century.  As part of his previous
research, Pynchon walked the 233-mile length of the Mason-Dixon line.

Bill Roeder
_Newsweek_, August 7, 1978, p. 17.


MASON & DIXON DEEP & MEANINGFUL

Discussion Schedule for Section One: 'Latitudes and Departures'

Ch. 1       pp 5-11     10 Sept.    Judy Panetta
Chs 2-3     pp 12-29    17 Sept.    Dave Monroe
Chs 4-5     pp 30-46    24 Sept.    John Bailey
Ch. 6       pp 47-57    1 Oct.
Ch. 7       pp 58-76    8 Oct.      Michel Ryckx
Chs 8-9     pp 77-93    15 Oct.     Michel Ryckx
Ch. 10      pp 94-104   22 Oct.     Otto
Chs 11-12   pp 105-124  29 Oct.
Ch. 13      pp 125-145  5 Nov.
Chs 14-15   pp 146-166  12 Nov.     Sam Moyer
Chs 16-17   pp 167-182  19 Nov.
Chs 18-19   pp 183-198  26 Nov.
Chs 20-21   pp 199-214  3 Dec.      John Lundy
Chs 22-23   pp 215-227  10 Dec.
Chs 24-25   pp 238-253  17 Dec.     kfl


PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE (with Reading Group Guide)

http://216.247.214.252/pynchon/index.html


TIM WARE'S WEB GUIDE

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/index.html


CRITICAL WORKS

Clerc, Charles. _Mason & Dixon & Pynchon_. Lanham: University Press of
America, 2000.

Horvath, Brooke and Irving Malin (eds). _Pynchon and 'Mason & Dixon'_.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000.

online essays by Peter Schmidt, Mark Siegel, Bill Millard:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/mason.html

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/siegel24.htm

http://www.columbia.edu/~wbm1/snovian.html


RECOMMENDED REVIEWS

Coraghessan Boyle, T. 'The Great Divide', _New York Times Book Review_, May
18, 1997, p. 9:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/970518.18boylet.html?searchpv=
book-site 

LeClair, Tom. '_Mason & Dixon_'. Pynchon Node:

http://oz.uc.edu/~sola/Pynchreview.htm

Livingstone, David B. 'Mystery Train'. _Spike Magazine_, September 1997:

http://www.spikemagazine.com/0997pync.htm

Mattessich, Stefan. Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces', 1997:

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.997/review-5.997

McConnell, Frank. 'Good and Plenty'. _Commonweal_ August 15, 1997:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezmcconnell.htm

McLemee, Scott. 'Weird Morning in America'. _Salon_. April 25, 1997:

http://www.salon.com/april97/pynchon970425.html

Menand, Louis. 'Entropology'. _New York Review of Books_ 44.10, June 12,
1997, pp. 22-25:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezmenand.htm

Moody, Rick. 'Surveyors of the Enlightenment'. _Atlantic Monthly_ 280.1,
July 1997, pp. 106-110:

http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/pynchon.htm

Overbye, Dennis. 'Street Cred: Pynchon Toes the Line'. _Wired_, August 1997:

http://www.wired.com/news/topstories/0,1287,6177,00.html
 
Siegel, Mark. 'Review of Thomas Pynchon, _Mason & Dixon_.' _H-Net Reviews_,
August 1997:

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14776872015199

Skea, Ann. 'Mason & Dixon'. _Eclectica_ 2.5, Aug./Sep. 1998:

http://www.eclectica.org/v2n5/skea_mason_dixon.html

Wall Hinds, Elizabeth Jane. 'Making the Rounds of History'. _Threads_:

http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/r8hinds.htm

Weisenburger, Steven. 'Pynchon Surveys Troubled Land'. _Wall Street
Journal_, June 22, 1997:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezweisenburger.htm


MORE REVIEWS

http://216.247.214.252/pynchon/md_reviews.htm

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/6.htm

http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_reviews.html


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