On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Charles J. Shields <cjs1994 at earthlink.net> wrote: > I'm thinking about going at Pynchon's novels in reverse: that is, reading > what he might have read, or at least becoming familiar with key concepts, > ideas, themes, and so on, before I pick up my first Pynchon work. http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html