Everything okay out there in Pynchon-land?

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 13:18:08 CST 2017


Last I confusingly heard, it was a Holiday treat, the Read starting Dec 21,
just a few day's before that Eve...

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought the original question referred to the P-list -- the passing of
> the December 1st start of the M&D group read, and the deafening silence on
> that score -- rather than to Pynchon himself.
>
> LK
>
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I enjoyed Zero K -   I think it’s probably DeLillo at his usual finest -
>> only Underworld and possibly The Names stand higher.  I also   was strongly
>> reminded of Point Omega or,  maybe in some ways,  The Names.
>>
>>
>> Becky
>> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>>
>> > On Dec 3, 2017, at 10:24 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is it understood that the object of our obsession is currently working
>> on a new long-form work? Or is this just conjecture?
>> >
>> > I'm half-way through Zero K, Delillo's latest. At this point, it could
>> end up being just slightly better than, or just slightly less amazing than,
>> Point Omega.
>> >
>> > Anyone else out there have any opinions re: Zero K?
>> >
>> > Jerky
>> >
>> > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Tough question, Tom's next location/dateline, especially after
>> Vineland. But always willing to respond to difficult questions, I'm going
>> to suggest that he return to the past, as Neal Stephenson did with the
>> fabulous trilogy; alternatively, maybe he could pen a story about being
>> best man to Richard Farina, who married Mimi, sister of Joan Baez and
>> author of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.
>> >
>> > A.
>> > ​
>> >
>>
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