Colson Whitehead - Teenage Pynchonite

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 18:47:29 UTC 2023


Good for you. For me it was V. But I just bought the anniversary edition of
Gravity's Rainbow. I have almost memorized it.

On Friday, April 28, 2023, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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-- 
Arthur


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