Apocrypha Now!

[Jay Herzog]

I liked the Mekons vs. Frederick Jameson smackdown (needless to say
the Mekes win in a walk). I haven't read anything else yet in the
book.

BTW, I think Pynchon takes pop seriously, which is not to say he takes
it pompously.

J.

On 1/17/07, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> i read the intro--it's godawful
>
> pop shouldn't be taken so seriously imho
>
> i hate this introducing buffy to dh lawrence type shit
>
> who has the chutzpah to call themselves "outsiders" particularly some fool
> who has his books published by Harvard?
>
>
>
>
> On 1/17/07, Dave Monroe < monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Flipped through it @ a shop, is all, so ...
> >
> > --- rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > funny, but this kinda stuff exudes arrogant
> > > pretension up the wazoo
> > >
> > > On 1/16/07, Dave Monroe < monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hampton, Howard.  "Apocrypha Now!  An Imaginary
> > > >    Discography of Thomas Pynchon's Paranoids."
> > > >    Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical
> > > >    Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses.  Cambridge,
> > > >    MA: Harvard UP, 2007.  413-26
> > > >
> > > > http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HAMBOR.html



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