BE #1 Amazon Best Seller in "Historical Mystery"

[Markekohut]

Per my earlier post, Penguin Press probably did the categorization and they---the editor or marketing person--might have asked the Pynchons because they are the Pynchons....

When I read " set in the early years of the Internet" in the description, I thought that was Pynchon talking......#just guessing. 


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On Sep 15, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the time we become aware that something has happened, it's already past.
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> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think you nailed it with your last sentence, Bekah. Soon "retro"
>> will mean wearing the clothes you didn't take off last night because
>> you were too drunk. Maybe we're reaching the point at which the
>> universe is finished expanding and starts to contract again, reversing
>> time and making "history" a reference to the future.
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>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> > I have a small issue with the "historical" part of the genre description.  How "historical" can 2001 be?  Pynchon and the readers of BE were all likely adults at the time and as a result have a personal involvement - not an historical one.   Precious few books are written about the times we actually live in - they're usually set at least 3 or 4 years prior often up to 10 or so.  (Suite Francois was very surprising and Pattern Recognition was similar in its chronological proximity of setting - so to speak).
>> >
>> > What with the speed of technology (we're now exploring the real "outer" space) I suppose history is anything that happened yesterday?
>> >
>> > Bekah
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>> > On Sep 15, 2013, at 6:46 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I say give the Amazon folk credit, they nailed it. They couldn't call
>> >> it a Romance, or those academinc terms, postmodern, high modern, or as
>> >> Cowart does, roman fleuve, or hysterical...metafiction... so I like
>> >> it.
>> >>
>> >> The American Mystery (Tanner).
>> >>
>> >> In this wonderful little book, Tanner, from the first essay on
>> >> Emerson, which takes up this issue of Sloth and the Author, of Anarchy
>> >> and Work, we see how Pynchon fits into this American Mystery
>> >> tradition, again, not so Dieckensian as has been argued, nothing that
>> >> European, but a studied son of the American Mystery.
>> >>
>> >> The mystery softens the blunt instrument that is anything that would
>> >> work on 9-11 with a bleeding political edge.
>> >
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