Latest Successor to Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

On 5/16/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Intrestingly, the cover has a big "49" on it.
>
> http://us.macmillan.com/atmosphericdisturbances
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Rivka Galchen, M.D. from Oklahoma Is the Latest Successor to Pynchon
> >
> > Author of the stirring debut novel Atmospheric Disturbances raised by
> > mom and pop scientists, watched over by Beckett
> >
> > by Leon Neyfakh  |  May 13, 2008 ...
> >
> > http://www.observer.com/2008/rivka-galchen-m-d-oklahoma-latest-successor-pynchon

A Slight Trick of the Mind: Rivka Galchen's 'Atmospheric Disturbances'
Books  |  Review of: Atmospheric Disturbances
By ADAM KIRSCH
May 28, 2008

If you were inclined to paranoia — if, like Dr. Leo Lieberstein, the
narrator of "Atmospheric Disturbances" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256
pages, $24), you detected portents in the most apparently banal
details — your imagination might well seize on the large number 49
that appears on the cover of Rivka Galchen's debut novel. Isn't this
an obvious allusion to Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49," which,
like Ms. Galchen's book, concerns the discovery of a secret conspiracy
that may not actually exist? ...

http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-slight-trick-of-the-mind-rivka-galchens/78695/