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

[Mark Kohut]

There are the novels predominantly about America

and the novels just as much about The World (and America in it)



--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> Subject: RE: Homage to Thomas Pynchon’s L.A. Trilogy
> To: against.the.dave at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 7:07 AM
> 
> 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
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