Other Authors?

[Matthew Taylor]

Not necessarily comparable to Pynchon in any direct way, but most Pynchon
lovers I know are also crazy about Italo Calvino and Roberto Bolano.
For Calvino, start with Cosmicomics or If On A Winter's Night A Traveler or
even Invisible Cities.
For Bolano, gotta start with The Savage Detectives.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
> Blood Meridian...Cormac McCarthy
> Love Medicine...Louise Erdrich
> A Fan's Notes...Fred Exley
> Wild Decembers...Edna O'Brien
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> On Jan 17, 2017, at 11:40 PM, James Robertson <james at themutedposthorn.com>
> wrote:
>
> Gaddis. Gass. Also have a look at Thomas Berger. Little Big Man is an
> excellent novel. Shares P's sense if the historic; both playful and
> precise. I have read a lot of books about the Sioux and Cheyennes since
> reading Berger, and often surprised how accurate his portrayal of both the
> characters and the events.
>
> @jamesjrobertson
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> On 17/01/2017, at 1:45 PM, Rob Miller <robcmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tom McCarthy, Don Delillo, DFW... some Chabon & Franzen... Maybe Gaddis too
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:08 PM Jade Becker <jbecker13 at georgefox.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm a big DFW fan--read Infinite Jest last year. I'm thinking I'll have
>> to see-read it this summer when I get a chance. I've had my eye on The Pale
>> King for a while, though. Did you find that to be worth the read? It feels
>> odd to read a book he thought wasn't ready for publication...
>>
>> DeLillo's great too--I very much enjoyed White Noise.
>>
>> Jade
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>> On Jan 17, 2017, at 12:54 PM, DuBois, John E. <jdubois at cabq.gov> wrote:
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>> Don DeLillo, *Underworld*
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>> David Foster Wallace, *Infinite Jest*
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>> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
>> <owner-pynchon-l at waste.org>] *On Behalf Of *Jade Becker
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 17, 2017 1:50 PM
>> *To:* pynchon -l
>> *Subject:* Other Authors?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi P-listers,
>>
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>>
>> Wondering if any of you could direct me to some authors that emulate--or
>> at least evoke--Pynchon's virtuosic prose and share some of his concerns
>> about meaning, paranoia, racism, oppression, capitalism, etc.? (But really
>> any recommendations would be appreciated.)
>>
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>>
>> Jade
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