paul verhargen on TRP

[Mark Kohut]

* An interview with Paul Verhaegen, author of Omega Minor: 

For me, the lightning bolt was Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Which I picked up completely by accident: The university bookstore had a big stack of them, the cover looked interesting, the blurb too, and the first page immediately gripped me. Only when I got home did I realize I had, in fact, not discovered one of that year's hot new novelists, but an oldie that must have been on some crusty professor's reading list. I was doing my military service then and I read it in small installments on the early commuter train between Louvain and Ghent at 5:30 in the morning (on the train back, I was too tired and too busy coming to grips with being a soldier to read). I can assure you that there is nothing like reading Pynchon on a rattling hellbound train filled with snoring wage slaves.


      
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