Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Writing in the journal form, Schreiber balances her new life against her mother's death. She achieves this satisfying parity with emotional integrity and literary tact that suggest a depth of experience the author only hints at. Wisely. The results are clear and lasting observations rather than self- justifying trendy confessions...
...million budget for heart disease, the nation's top killer. "It's wrong to spend more money on a disease that will never kill more than 35,000 to 40,000 people a year than on a disease that will kill a half-million every year," says Michael Fumento, author of the recently published Myth of Heterosexual AIDS...
...every word of Thomas Pynchon's 760-page (in the original edition) novel, conditions turned clear and colder. Still, through the long day and night and next day, listeners assembled and dispersed, some of them harboring a small hope that this academic homage might attract the attendance of the author himself. (Rumors about a stranger who could have been Pynchon lurking about the fringes of the first marathon, two years earlier, continued to circulate.) The only problem was, if the author had shown up, no one would have been able to recognize...
...better-known opening lines in American literature: "A screaming comes across the sky." Thus begins Gravity's Rainbow (1973), the mammoth and, to many, impenetrable novel that established Thomas Pynchon as the most important and mysterious writer of his generation. While his cult exfoliated, the author mostly remained silent; Slow Learner, a collection of five previously published stories, appeared in 1984. Now, at last, comes Vineland, Pynchon's first novel in nearly 17 years, and the faithful can again begin the quest for runic meanings, preferably hidden. And right up at the top of the second page of text, something...
Pynchon's devotion to electronic allusions has been criticized before, and Vineland will no doubt increase the number of protests. It is, admittedly, disquieting to find a major author drawing cultural sustenance from The Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy instead of The Odyssey and the Bible. But to condemn Pynchon for this strategy is to confuse the author with his characters. He is a gifted man with anti-elitist sympathies. Like some fairly big names in innovative fiction, including Flaubert, Joyce and Faulkner, Pynchon writes about people who would not be able to read the books in which they...