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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