From an article in The Independent

[Mark Kohut]

"Perhaps the book that most clearly aligns with Zadie Smith’s position,
though, is Thomas Pynchon’s *Bleeding Edge*
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/28/bleeding-edge-thomas-pynchon-review>
. *Bleeding Edge* goes the furthest in challenging the singular importance
attached to 9/11 in its intertwined historical narrative, weaving in the
significance of the collapse of the dotcom bubble in 2000 and a history of
the internet’s transition from an anarchic to a completely corporate space."

I remember when our Plist Group Read of BLEEDING EDGE had dissolved like
Sothrop but one longtime and steadily-contributing Plister had gotten to
the 9/11 part of BLEEDING EDGE and found it so ..interesting?, different
than expected?
that he hoped the Read could be revived.

I, too, keep thinking of that place in BLEEDING EDGE and Pynchon's
perspectives and possible meanings (in the fiction). It just recently
entered my skull that his presented stillness of NYC in the aftermath and
people's reactions was akin to the Deep Web before what went down went
down; akin to a different world (perhaps) in some sense.
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