Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Jerome Park]

To each her own, but if P publishes a book of old stuff I won't read it.
Don't care for another autobiographical essay either, or for essays, but
would love another big fat masterpiece about America.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 1:42 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Laura
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> From: Mark Kohut
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> Sent: Jun 14, 2015 11:35 AM
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> To: Jerome Park
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> Cc: pynchon-l
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> Subject: Re: Odds of another Pynchon novel
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> I say No, in thunder to different audiences.
>
> Sent from my iPad
> On Jun 14, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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)
>
>
>
> 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
>
> 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???....
>
> How, tell me, is AtD based on a GR template, which is Wha ????
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