The two unpublished novels—The Antagonist, influenced by Thomas Pynchon, the American writer, and The Book of Peer—were written by Rushdie in the 1970s: "The Antagonist was a contemporary London novel, set around Ladbroke Grove where I was living at the time. I think it was embarrassingly ...
Did Thomas Pynchon know Kurt Vonnegut? Was H.P. Lovecraft murdered? Is Wole Soyinka dead? How did Isaac Asimov die? Is How the Heroes Die written by Larry Niven? Was Kurt Vonnegut a humanist? Is Nadine Gordimer still alive? Did Terry Brooks inspire Dungeons and Dragons?
Literary or mainstream works, John O’Hara and, later, Mailer, Vidal, and Capote, stayed on my radar too. On came Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and so forth, and now I’m a ruin of eclectic books. Sorry for having gone on, but I so adore books, reading, and learning to wr...
Did Thomas Pynchon know Kurt Vonnegut? Was H.P. Lovecraft nationalist? Was Isaac Asimov gay? Was Robert Browning religious? Did Henry David Thoreau know mythology? Was Kurt Vonnegut a teacher? Is Jhumpa Lahiri Catholic? Was James Joyce a novelist?
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butMonicahas more in common with the complex literary novels of someone like Thomas Pynchon than it does with any "graphic novel" that I've come across. It's a book that challenges you to think, rethink, reread; it will stay with me for a long time. When I conducted this interview, ...
Though he admired John Barth, Don DeLillo and especially Thomas Pynchon, Wallace was critical of what he believed to be two dangerously antiquated aspects of their fiction. Philosophically, he took issue with what had become the habitual postmodern announcement that there were no longer any subjects...
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Audio: Hear Joanna Newsom, Johnny Greenwood Do ‘Spooks’ – Song Is In Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’ Film December 11, 2014 Audio: Frank Sinatra & Bob Dylan Sing the Songs From ‘Shadows In The Night’ December 11, 2014 Video: The Story Of Bob Dylan’s ‘Basement Tapes’ – 24 Min...
Early in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, Jessica asks a question. “What was it like? Before the war?” She knows she was alive then, a child, but it’s not what she means. The question is impossible to answer. There’s nothing to recall. “All I remember is that it was silly. ...