Pynchon Cartoon in New Yorker

[jbor]

Seems the New Yorker has twigged to one of the motivations for Pynchon's
Simpsons gigs as well. New book coming soon, is my guess.

Re: Pynchon's inaugural Simpsons guest spot, on 28/1/04 8:34 PM, jbor wrote:

[...]
> And, the final quip -- "But wait ... there's more!" -- mimics those late night
> tv ads for DemTel products where you get a set of steak knives and a new
> garden setting and the state of Tasmania thrown in when you purchase the
> exercise bike in four easy payments, and it's funny enough on that level for
> the non-aficionados. But, at another level, it does seem to support [the] idea
> that the new book is nigh, that that's the "more" which is
> imminent -- and, he's making fun of himself for resorting to such a cheap
> commercial gesture to promote himself and his forthcoming book. It's a
> brilliant example of that trademark reflexivity or self-consciousness of
> postmodernism that Pynchon is both sending himself up for resorting to such a
> shameless publicity stunt, while at the same time he's actually pulling the
> stunt.

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