Pynchon's New Book?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

"Turn of the century" also misses the events of 1886 in Haymarket Square -- The first May Day march, anarchist rallies, bomb thrown at the police, riots, execution of anarchist leaders -- seems surprising Pynchon would want to miss out on all of that.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jun 17, 2006 9:49 AM
>To: snappydresser <snappydresser at rogers.com>, Mike Beiderbecke <beider19 at comcast.net>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Pynchon's New Book?
>
>I'm sure you know these, but ...
>
>Geary, Rick.  The Beast of Chicago:
>   An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W.
>   Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes.
>   New York: NBM, 2003.
>
>http://www.nbmpub.com/mystery/geary.html
>
>"Search Inside" @ amazon.com will actually give you
>full graphic pages, even ...
>
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561633623/103-1356613-1521444?v=glance&n=283155
>
>And, of course ...
>
>Larson, Erik.  Devil in the White City:
>   Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that
>   Changed America.  New York: Crown, 2003.
>
>http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/devilinthewhitecity/home.html
>
>My roommate, who was interested in the case, hadn't
>come across either, astonishingly, so ...
>
>--- snappydresser <snappydresser at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> Shoot! That puts it just a year too late for it to
>> be about notorious Chicago conman and serial killer
>> H.H. Holmes, who built a real-life house of 
>> horrors full of trap rooms in which he murdered up
>> to 200 women who lodged there whilst attending the
>> World Fair. Holmes died in 1896.
>
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