Colson Whitehead - Teenage Pynchonite

[Johnny Marr]

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/14/colson-whitehead-when-i-read-invisible-man-i-thought-maybe-theres-room-for-a-black-weirdo-like-me

The book that changed me as a teenager
I was 19 when I underwent my big Pynchon
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/may/08/thomas-pynchon-at-80-eight-reasons-to-celebrate-his-birthday>summer
and dived into Gravity’s Rainbow. Systems, rebel forces, counter-histories,
a little bit of hope – that you could cram so much of the world from page
to page was exhilarating to discover.