Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Mark Kohut]

His audience is the one I see ( almost ) all great writers wanting. The whole audience of good readers...of any age, any place. 
I a going to suggest he has " changed" less than most writers thematically, yet every book is a tone, perspective change ( and incredible variations). 

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> On Jun 14, 2015, at 12:42 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> I can't imagine that Pynchon has an audience in mind when he writes. But considering how long he's been writing and how he himself has changed, of course his later books have a different audience than his earlier ones.
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> Personally, I'd be thrilled if he produced a collection of essays - autobiographical, socio-political, literary - or anything else he chose to right about. Even if he published a collection of his previously-released essays (from high school, through the Boeing years and on), with one or two new essays added on, wouldn't we all want it in our collections?
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> Laura
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> From: Mark Kohut 
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> Subject: Re: Odds of another Pynchon novel
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> I say No, in thunder to different audiences. 
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> On Jun 14, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Who does Pynchon write for? Were BE and IV written for the same audience? I think so, How about AtD and M&D? A different audience. I sense that VL is somewhere between these two. The shift after GR is most obvious in VL and IV and BE. The Great American novels, M&D and AtD are what I hope Pynchon will continue to produce and publish, but it's obvious that time is limited and such works are longer projects so, but the California project, and BE, are a lind of Return, something the other novels satirize even as they seem to flirt with nostalgia parodically...so here's hoping for a massive masterpiece again. 
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> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:13 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems to me that Pynchon is much more explicit in the post-GR collection in portioning out blame, without the clutter of a mystical detective puzzle scaffold: Reagan, the FBI, Republicans, penises, the LAPD and police of all stripes, Microsoft, plutocrats of all stripes, and all intimate complications within the Beltway. i.e. the lines of good and bad are more sharply drawn (M&D retained much of that mystical which is why I don't include in this collection. We really dont know who They/M is though we know the East India Co has a few members). That's what I mean by a more direct style. the GR template is only my conceit for  the scaffolding. I also say all this acknowledging how these two threads are ever connected, despite the ostensible break and that there isnt anything wrong or necesarily lesser in the later works (Pynchon hasnt lost that voice): I would only argue such directness, aesthetically, dilutes while it instructs (sorta like comparing early REM to late REM)
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> rich
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> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I, too, wish you would elaborate on these two points, Direct Style and GR Template.  Masters Thesis sounding titles.
> David Morris
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> On Friday, June 12, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friend Rich,[...]And, I do not understand what " the new direct style" even IS per your reference. later works " more direct in style" than GR???....
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> How, tell me, is AtD based on a GR template, which is Wha ????
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