Using the Night

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon has a coherent vision....."loose leftism" ain't it, imo.....he
misses anarchism....and his later generation
take is....different.......

And P has always used genre tropes....not came back to them at the end....

On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was written from a high superior height imho....All that disdain for
> conspiracy and and for working to understand it.....
> Made fun of Pynchon's cult and academic adjacent readers as if this isn't
> done to ALL great writers....who are so nuanced and rich in meaning that
> one can do this....
>
> He cleared himself for not going too deep---despite the HIGH words and
> concepts ---with his slur against too much ambiguity and,
> mostly, that we can't figure him out...
>
> And, a
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> this and the one in the New Left Review were the best imho
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/using-the-night/
>> > --
>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> >
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>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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