Why do Pynchon, Ballard and Wallace provoke such online loyalty?

[Henry Musikar]

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Pynchon-L, the Thomas Pynchon discussion forum, was set up more than 15
years ago and still runs on the same basic system. As Jules Siegel puts it
in Lineland, his bizarre account of this literary fringe group: "You join a
list by subscribing to it. Members send their thoughts by e-mail to a
central computer and all those messages go out to everyone subscribed to the
list. To get off the list, you unsubscribe." It's a simple arrangement, but
one that has survived the social networking revolution and the
ultra-plurality of the blogosphere.

Henry Mu
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