news on the march
Well, here’s some news, on a couple of fronts. I’m not one-third of the way through Against the Day. If I was reading it in hard copy, around 350 pages. So far, I have no idea where it’s going and, … Continue reading
Well, here’s some news, on a couple of fronts. I’m not one-third of the way through Against the Day. If I was reading it in hard copy, around 350 pages. So far, I have no idea where it’s going and, … Continue reading
This was good news: “After Long Resistance, Pynchon Allows Novels to Be Sold as E-Books“ I think Inherent Vice and Against the Day first, then Mason & Dixon after that. What a bunch of treats to look forward to, and … Continue reading
I saw this story, and so far I’m not excited. Of course, Inherent Vice could make a good movie. But I’m not excited about Paul Thomas Anderson directing that movie (which could easily be just a rumor, of course, and … Continue reading
I just re-read The Crying of Lot 49, which I hadn’t picked up in a decade or two, and it was interesting (and quite enjoyable). It was interesting to see Pynchon writing about the 1960s before “the Sixties” really happened … Continue reading
One thing got left out of my last post (“Inherent Vineland”) because I couldn’t figure out exactly how to express it. I was trying to explain the objective reason that things like the Godzilla footprint in Vineland are less valid … Continue reading
I just finished re-reading Vineland, and it is true (as I reported before) that I remembered its flaws much more clearly than its positive aspects. In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani said that Inherent Vice was “a workmanlike improvisation … Continue reading