Word: pynchon
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...things? Just heard a song on the radio by Richard Farina, who went here, called V. based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon, also Cornell Grad. So? See you around...
...would probably have missed the record altogether, had it not been for my Thomas Pynchon obsession, which ciliated the following postcard from my good buddy Kraz the drummer, then a freshman at Cornell...
...Americans, meanwhile, have adopted comedy as their tool and social alienation and absurdity as their twin themes. Nearly every important American writer-Nabokov, Mailer Barm, Bellow, Malamud, Donleavy, Roth, Friedman, Burroughs, Heller, Pynchon, Willingham-works from an assumption that society is at best malevolent and stupid, at worst wholly lunatic. The gods are dead and their graves untended, morality is a matter of picking one's way between competing absurdities, and the only sane reaction to society-to its alleged truths and virtues, its would-be terrors and taboos-is a cackle or a scream of possibly cathartic laughter...
...agent really is his mother, Ad Schulberg, a 37-year veteran of the business. But few agents serve as a mother substitute as successfully as Candida Donadio, an exceedingly shy woman who abhors publicity and rarely allows herself to be photographed. Such clients as Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Thomas Pynchon (V.), and Bruce Jay Friedman (A Mother's Kisses) worship her for her combination of good business sense and warm understanding of their difficulties. The trade calls her "the Den Mother of Black Humor...
Mossman excepted, the most talented first novelists are American. About half of them are trying hard to write a new kind of fiction: the Pop Novel. Most of them acknowledge their debt to J. D. Salinger, Joseph Heller and Thomas Pynchon, but they ultimately derive the strength through Joyce-their narrative source is the scream of consciousness...