Curiosity during the reading of AtD.

[Mark Kohut]

Well, more women buy and read fiction than men. Been long tabulated.

Re Pynchon, there are only the lying eyes of our experience, as far as I know. 

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> On Sep 9, 2015, at 8:35 PM, "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> How would we know whether he has fewer women readers? Who has collected and tabulated the demographics of his ( or any other author's) readership?
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> Laura
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> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Surely fewer women readers, surely. right ladies on the list? I offer simplistically that when he was said to have math and science shit in his early books, that culture-created distance of most women from those subjects created fewer readers. 
> He is a feminist in many essential ways in his vision, I argue. 
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> > On Sep 9, 2015, at 6:13 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks heaps, Kamil.  Looks to be good reading!
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> > The Beefheart comparison was probably unfairly frivolous.  Of the po-mo nuts I know, the only one with a posthorn tat's Lisa Yaszek at the school of Literature & Communication at GA Tech.  She used to bang rails with Pat Cadigan.  Now she teaches rambling aspies how to speak without snarling.  It's a living...
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> > Just got to wondering.  It's an aspect I rarely hear discussed, re: his "audience".  P's never been one to write with an eye toward a broader audience (groaannn) so the majority of his books don't pass that Bechdel test.  Why I continue to dig BE, obv.
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