RE: Homage to Thomas Pynchon’s L.A. Trilogy

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Can we really speak of Vineland as part of some 'L.A. Trilogy'?

Me personally I always found Northern California to be quite different
from LA. So I guess 'Cali Trilogy' would be a better term.

And then it's not really a trilogy. Col49 (which, btw, partly plays in San
Francisco) has much more to do with GR than with VL or IV.

"No, one hesitates to say it, but the Santa Monica is a freeway for freaks,
and they are all out today ..." (GR, p. 755)

Perhaps the whole idea to somehow group Pynchon's novels along the lines
of geography is simply misleading.

I mean, no one would buy it if I'd say that V-GR-M&D-AtD is Pynchon's
'Old-Yurp-Tetralogy', right?

KFL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA2jlWEb9-Y


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> From: against.the.dave at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:18:20 -0600
> Subject: Homage to Thomas Pynchon’s L.A. Trilogy
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> Los Angeles presents literary extravaganza
> Friday, November 27 2009 15:56 GR Staff
>
> The Los Angeles Literary Program includes some 60 activities and 50
> authors, headed by Ray Bradbury, who will participate in a homage via
> satellite in the opening session on Sunday, November 30, 5 p.m. Other
> highlights of the program include the themes: A Poetry Reading by B.H.
> Fairchild; Everything But the Story – Creative Non-fiction in L.A.;
> The Short Story: L.A. in a Shot Glass; The Heartbeat of the City: L.A.
> Poetry; They’re From Where?: L.A.-Bred Writers Who Live Everywhere But
> in L.A.; A Conversation with Jane Smiley; The Two-Way Mirror: How
> Mexican-Americans View Mexico and Viceversa; Down These Mean Streets:
> L.A. Crime Writing; Science Fiction: L.A. is Another Planet; Homage to
> the Screenwriter; Homage to Thomas Pynchon’s L.A. Trilogy and
> Chicanismo.
>
> http://www.guadalajarareporter.com/news-mainmenu-82/947-international-book-fair/25882-los-angeles-presents-literary-extravaganza.html