MLA 2014: Pynchon at the Bleeding Edge

[Michael Bailey]

for a brief, exciting moment, I thought you, Dave, were to be on the
panel, and was formulating plans to get there by hook and/or crook!

still, good news and thanks for it!

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> A second piece of good MLA news for the day: I’ll also be
> participating on a roundtable on the new Thomas Pynchon novel,
> Bleeding Edge, scheduled to be published this fall.  Also on the panel
> are our organizer Cornelius Collins, Samuel Cohen, David Cowart, Amy
> Elias, Jeffrey Severs, and Alison Shonkwiler. We’ll be a large and
> diverse group, and I’m excited to get together with both old friends
> and new collaborators to see what we as a group can do with what is
> sure to be an exciting novel and publishing event — the roundtable
> model of brief comments and broad conversation should give us a lot of
> room for rich engagement.
>
> My own contributions to the panel are best prefigured by the paragraph
> on media and technology in the abstract below — inspired by the
> multi-leveled historical questions of the novel and the other
> speakers, and by Mark Sample’s imaginary DH history of Don DeLillo,
> I’m thinking about how the online runup to the novel might speak to
> whatever Pynchon has to say about the culture and economy of
> technology in the early 21st century — but who knows what the novel
> itself might actually hold…
>
> http://paulbenzon.com/mla-2014pynchon/