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"I've seen it countless times. DFW, DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy, Franzen, etc., get blasted as just 'being a bunch of white males thinking they're great novelists.' Most of these guys' work isn't even controversial or about race."
"Bring back the DFW/Pynchon/Brett Easton Ellis/Jonathan Franzen/Chuck Palahnhiuk wannabes."
"All summer long, we are reading red flag books in public. I'm talking DFW at the coffee shop. I'm talking Tropic of Cancer in the park. I'm talking Pynchon at the bar with a $14 cocktail."
"Shakespeare, Joyce, Ozu, Pynchon and McCarthy etc created awe inspiring works of art honouring god built around toilet humour. Cumtown is the stuff of philosopher kings and middle schoolers."
"I think the whole thing is ripe for some kind of riding alongside history storytelling (not the right term) like Pynchon or Delillo."
"Like yea it's Brocialist lit 101 and it's not Joyce or Pynchon or even Franzen or Knausgaard."
"A photograph on the back cover of a memoir by Phyllis Gebauer, a close friend of Pynchon's, shows the author's hand extending out of the door of his apartment giving a peace sign with a pig piñata named Claude and Gebauer in the foreground."
"I always think Pynchon and 90s Cartoon Network get very close to 'reality' even in their absurdity because every character is supremely fucked up, creepy, weird, but because of that, everyone is equalized, everyone has their moment, everyone has a funny joke, every smart guy has some dumb shit to sa"
"~48 archival boxes of Pynchon shit spanning the last 70 years. If any Cali based rsp members are qualified to gain access get your name In now. Also probably means he's going to be on the other side soon :("
"Twenty-nine's Fell Shadow! O, inhospitably final year of any Pretense to Youth, its Dreams now, how wither'd away...tho' styl'd a Prime, yet bid'st thou Adieu to the Prime of Life!...There,--there, in the Stygian Mists of Futurity, loometh the dread Thirty,-- Transition unspeakable!"
"I've recently been reading Pynchon (lol) and watching 3blue1brown to fall asleep and now I want to relearn it even though I hated it so much in school. I guess I see the beauty in it now, another part of nature, even though it goes way above my head."
"been taking in a lot of kafka pynchon and now spinoza mainly with the intent of becoming better reader. never before have words alone brought me to tears and i havent felt this moved since being introduced shakespeares sonnets in like 9th grade english class."
"About 2/3rds of the way through Glamorama and it's probably my favorite thing he's done. Like Pynchon for oversexed yuppies with an extended universe to boot"
"I like to write gay little poems. I like reading, Dostoevsky, mccarthy and pynchon right now but i would love to have the correspondence of anyone to make me feel like my favorite things can be shared and not just enjoyed in the dark."
"~48 archival boxes of Pynchon shit spanning the last 70 years."
"she mentioned Thomas Pynchon being around offhand. She seemed puzzled that I was so surprised a person knew Thomas Pynchon, explaining she only knew him personally and had never read any of his stuff because he was so weird and annoying."
"The Dread of Turning 30, one of my favourite excerpts from Pynchon's "Mason and Dixon""
"I've recently been reading Pynchon (lol) and watching 3blue1brown to fall asleep and now I want to relearn it even though I hated it so much in school."
"I've read Thomas Pynchon."
"I like reading, Dostoevsky, mccarthy and pynchon right now"
"No small irony the Pynchon posters are being castigated."
"is heavily inspired by Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49"