A Pynchon Miscellany

[Dave Monroe]

"Perhaps the central argument of The Emperor's
Children is that, as a form, the traditional novel
still matters; that it can engage morally on a level
beyond any form of journalism and beyond the mere
games of postmodernism represented by writers such as
Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace (whose books
are abandoned unfinished by Bootie)...."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/09/17/bomes203.xml&sSheet=/arts/2006/09/17/bomain.html

"As for Thomas Pynchon, one suspects that he should
avoid stimulants altogether: He’s posted on Amazon a
goofy description of a new novel that’s 1,120 pages
long. Against the Day (Penguin Press) is due out just
before Thanksgiving—'the author is up to his usual
business,' Mr. Pynchon warns. 'Let the reader decide,
let the reader beware. Good luck.'"

http://www.observer.com/20060925/20060925_Adam_Begley_culture_specialnewsstory3.asp

"So far, the only sure things are that 'Against the
Day' will be, like all Mr. Pynchon's books, huge
(1,120 pages), ambitious (it begins with the Chicago
World's Fair of 1893 and ends after World War I), and
wildly antic: 'The sizable cast of characters,' the
publisher promises, 'includes anarchists, balloonists,
gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts,
innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad
scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians,
spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns.'"

http://www.nysun.com/article/40022

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