A Reviewer's Hunch about Pynchon's Fans

tbeshear tbeshear at insightbb.com
Sun May 27 14:56:43 CDT 2007


Here's some spectrum -- 
Read in the last couple months:
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
May and June issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
White Bicycles by Joe Boyd (a memoir by an American working as a manager and record producer in the UK in the '60s)
(I think I've forgotten a few others, but this should suffice.)

Tom Beshear



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan Hansong 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:52 AM
  Subject: A Reviewer's Hunch about Pynchon's Fans


  Hi, here is  Howard Schneider's shitty prophecy. Please share
  with us your reading spectrum and make a testimony against
  or for this iconoclastic judgment on the Pynchonites. 

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  I have a hunch that Pynchon's zealous fans don't read
  many novels, so they're not bothered by his flaws. They
  cherish their idol because he presents the world as they
  know it: science, technology, history, politics, high and low
  culture all mashed together to make a garish gallimaufry.
  The results might be messy but so is the society the
  Pynchonites inhabit.

  ----Review by Howard Schneider
  May-June 2007  THE HUMANIST
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