Hey take it over to the Great Real Names thread, M. Panini!
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 October 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
A game on this site was trying to find an author who was as wild as Pynchon. I really liked this piece of Laiseca, the novel hasn't been translated but it does sound wild.
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/manuel-antonio-castro-cordoba-on-laiseca/
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
I read Mason & Dixon this year and it was lovely
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Yah!
xyzzzz, thanks for that link. The description of Laiseca sounds so much like Pynchon! Very interesting and now I want to read it but don't speak or read spanish :(
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
Quite a few ambitious works are being translated btw. This is out Match next year.
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-garden-of-seven-twilights
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-12-14/the-huntington-library-acquires-papers-of-thomas-pynchon
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
Huntington Library is an awesome place and perfect for Pynchon. Really interesting that the archive will include his research materials - could be illuminating.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link
love this. huntington really is the right place.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
A few have talked about Solenoid as the highly ambitious work on a Pynchonesque scale. Eng translation has been issued. I will have a go at it.
Mircea Cărtărescu’s “brilliant, clear and disquieting prose….fills you quite immediately with a desire to explore a world that seems to be collapsing”Read @SaraheKornfeld’s full review of “Solenoid” (tr. Sean Cotter) here:https://t.co/crAUuYGybV@DeepVellum #LARreviews pic.twitter.com/Bg47GMSW7L— Los Angeles Review (@LAReview) December 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 December 2022 12:02 (one year ago) link
Lovely news to see indeed -- Pynchon and Butler, what a combo alone!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
The best novel ever written by an ex-CIA operative (unless Pynchon is ex-CIA, which he might be).— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 22, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:42 (seven months ago) link
If he was, it surely only served to sharpen his criticism of historical and contemporary US foreign policy
― imago, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:46 (seven months ago) link
DeLillo has more big spook energy.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 22 September 2023 14:13 (seven months ago) link
Libra presumably an expose rather than a speculation
― imago, Friday, 22 September 2023 14:15 (seven months ago) link
whenever this thread is revived I worry that he's dead. how old is he by now anyway?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:17 (seven months ago) link
86 I think
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:18 (seven months ago) link
there's a signed edition of Mason and Dixon on Ebay for $24k.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/274765041981?hash=item3ff945d13d:g:B7oAAOSwQWBdfQkd&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4NQNcS8Q0SfQmzO0180rdkEA3JX4lSWkw5TA7yzzANIQk8pUsHcXQs8FzKvlDWMLPHJePYglAPUC093VvGVN68JYxmebKgweiZ8Nbcw5r5XNmSffetYZxis45gH8G%2FfrPxRsxto3SCtzlSp1kA%2FFtpyf5Q0241JFXIjigK74en2DIdcCmj2hJ0zoRKRw6G%2Fvc7pfVR3LWO0QInO5m7tckigFGMBRoe2cUdDELt0miJWdXDFcNtpPjIsrD5S4PqlPUjKYygYfT%2B1sHP0efqct3wR4Yr3Y5amrbKlkoeg3pOqf%7Ctkp%3ABlBMUOq9tu3XYg
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:41 (seven months ago) link
I’ve seen signed Salinger and Pynchon titles go for between $10k and $30k. You can see some more on Abebooks
― beamish13, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:49 (seven months ago) link
He's actually been dead since 1974. The books written by "Thomas Pynchon" after that point have actually been written by Irwin Corey.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:51 (seven months ago) link
i've held on to a signed Infinite Jest first edition in the hope that it would hit those heights but alas they seem to go for around 4k; he's dead but he wasn't exactly a recluse. If I don't get a job at some point I'll probably have to let it go.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:52 (seven months ago) link
i found a hilarious reddit thread from a european investigator who followed old men all over new york wondering if they were pynchon. he may or may not have snapped a picture of the back of him going into the building they confirmed as a residence of pynchon's wife. I just like to imagine old guys in NY getting accosted by a swede asking "are you thomas pynchon?" and their bewildered eyes
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:55 (seven months ago) link
that's amazing
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Friday, 22 September 2023 22:03 (seven months ago) link
I vaguely know Elvis Buñuelo and I read *Mating* at his behest. Amazing novel.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 22 September 2023 22:34 (seven months ago) link
xxxpost best novel by an ex-CIA agent: might be those by pen names ov Paul Linebarger, though I haven't yet read any (though omg the shorter fiction)
― dow, Friday, 22 September 2023 23:10 (seven months ago) link
re: Linebarger, the short fiction is amazing and stands up today. if anything only more prescient on e.g. animal liberation. nonfictionwise, Psychological Warfare is sitting on my desk but I haven't cracked it yet.
best by ex-CIA probably deserves its own thread. Frank Herbert seems obvious but afaict he genuinely was not affiliated.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:25 (seven months ago) link
Don't forget Harry Mathews
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 21:07 (seven months ago) link