thomas pynchon
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A Review of The Sitter (2023) by Angela O’Keeffe
By Jay Innis Murray I could not help wondering last evening whether my attempt to describe the woman in the red armchair had given you any clear idea of it. – Rilke in a letter of October 23, 1907 Of the risks that paid off during the research and development era for English-language fiction (i.e.… Continue reading
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On the 50th Anniversary of Gravity’s Rainbow – Exuberance is Beauty.
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Gravity’s Rainbow. Here’s Harold Bloom in his 2003 Introduction to his Modern Critical Views volume on Pynchon. The not unimpressive polemic of Norman Mailer—-that Fascism always lurks where plastic dominates—-is in Pynchon not a polemic but a total vision. Mailer, for all his legitimate status as… Continue reading
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“Who aint a slave?” A Note on Melville and Slavery
A note on Melville and slavery Continue reading
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