New Book

[Ghetta Life]

Could you tell us more about this "fake B Schrapnel article?"  Was this 
supposed to be Pynchon's description?  And what is B Schrapnel?

>From what I remember being reported, I think from a German radio interview 
w/ P a number of years ago, the new book is to be about a woman associated 
with a famous mathemetician.  I completely forget the details...

Ghetta

>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>
>re: jbor's post about the new novel--the reference to book opening up
>in a retirement home may have emerged from the fake B Schrapnel
>article:
>
>"We drank and talked for another half hour, though, ate an order of
>chips and salsa, and he added that his next novel will be, well,
>"neo-gothic." Set in an American subtropical region that is over run
>by retirees from the Midwest and New York, the book's themes are
>greed, solipsism, and anti-environmentalism, with a dash of
>Armageddon. Destruction, death and gore abound. The heroes are aliens
>from a distant galaxy. These extraterrestrials are more plant than
>animal, and therefore appalled at how life has evolved on earth. You
>may guess the rest. I'm sure the novel will take four or five years to
>draft and polish; and I'm hopeful it will acquire some alteration of
>motifs and themes."
>
>rich
>

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