Google Alert - Pynchon

[Ian Livingston]

Never read me no bad Reed.

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:49 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I'll give it a shot.
>
> Finished 1st 2 seasons of Twin Peaks.  Mostly high/low buffoonery.  The
> last few episodes were mostly lame. I wanted contex for Retutn.
>
> Return is better, iMH.  But it should be.  It feels like Tarantino
> sometimes, the bodies and G-talk...
>
> David Morris
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 9:23 PM Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me just evangelize for *Mumbo Jumbo *as enthusiastically as I can.
>> (I believe Morris especially would dig this book and the things it
>> entangles, if he hasn't/you haven't read it.)
>>
>> There are some spiritual, tonal, thematic resonances between *MJ *and *GR
>> *that make former worthy of the interest and attention of everyone on
>> this list. Plus it's fucking great. Radical. Ambitious. Very smart. Has
>> that Pynchon quality of seeming to stand up on a kind of transtemporal dais
>> and look at/speak to all of history, even the stuff that happens between
>> pub. date and reader, that happens in front of pub. date and reader both.
>> Plus it has not been sufficiently attended to by most of the cultures I've
>> interacted with. It will endure, I sincerely believe. Also it's not a long
>> book by any means, so you don't have much excuse.
>>
>> Some more evangelizing:
>>
>> *MJ* was given to me by an old teacher, mentor emeritus, friend. Writer
>> (as he says, in the griotic tradition), prophet, and hoodoo witch doctor
>> Arthur Rickydoc Flowers. He taught a class--one of the best experiences of
>> my life--in hoodoo literature. Farther down this what might be a rabbit
>> hole to some: Arthur's *Another Good Loving Blues *and other
>> titles, Gayl Jones (*Corregidora *is a great and short book, almost
>> reminds me of Denis Johnson; *The Healing*), Patrick Chamoiseau (*Texaco
>> *another big ambitious book for those of you who might have acquired
>> that taste), Gloria Naylor (*Mama Day*).
>>
>> Arthur's also a very powerful storyteller and performer. It's so moving
>> to see him in person. Experience him in the links below, read his work,
>> demand he be as in-print as possible.
>>
>> (In the second vid the performance starts at 2:30)
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9uE9-4xmtM
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGzEhnf7dfM
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If good enough for Pynchon to name-check, it is good enough to have
>>> grown in
>>> literary stature and become a 'classic' [name-check]
>>>
>>>
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>>> Subject: Google Alert - Pynchon
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>>> Pynchon
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>>> NEWS
>>>
>>> Mumbo Jumbo: a dazzling classic finally gets the recognition it deserves
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>>> The Guardian (blog)
>>> Or rather, Beauman's books feel at home in Reed's lineage: Beauman takes
>>> his cue from *Pynchon*, and *Pynchon* admires Reed, even
>>> name-checking ...
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