GR criticism

[rich]

I really liked this one that appeared in Harpers Magazine in 1975 by
Josephine Hendrin

(she also reviewed Vineland in Dissent Magazine titled Pynchon's
America which I haven't read)

What is Thomas Pynchon Telling Us?

http://harpers.org/archive/1975/03/0022215 (not full text)

i have a copy if anyone wants one

rich



On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:01 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> Thank you.  Were you able to land it on the internet?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 12:41 pm
> Subject: Re: GR criticism
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:07 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree.  My first reading was a dutiful slog.  The second and third were
>> entirely pleasurable.  That said, after the first reading I spent
>> something
>> like a week in the NY public library reading whatever criticism was
>> available at the time.  it was fun and it helped a lot.  One I remember
>> and
>> which you'll probably have trouble finding is "The Reader of the Movies"
>> (I
>> think) by someone named Lippmann and published (I think) in the Denver
>> Quarterly.  It's been many years, but I liked it a lot.
>
> Lippmann, Bertram.  "The Reader of Movies: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's
> Rainbow,"
>    Denver Quarterly 12, no.1 (1977): 1-46.