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A Hot Cup of Pynchon

On January 13, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Bites: Glenn Beck Likes Books, Daniel Nester, James Wood, Nerdcore, Klosterman on Balloon Boy, Kurt Vile, and More

On November 6, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Bites: Chabon Interviewed, Granta Changes, Literary Doppelgangers, Grand Theft Auto & Inherent Similarities, Anderson to adapt Dahl, Real Chocolate, and more

On October 13, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

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High-Brow v. Low-Brow: Thomas Pynchon, the Simpsons, and Why Academia Sucks

On September 11, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Thomas Pynchon loves The Simpsons. Remember this the next time you feel superior at a dinner party for being one of those people who never watches television, and you choose to tell others about it even if they work in television. Oh, and if you’ve recently written an obscure academic book on said recluse which will probably never be read, esp. by the writer himself, well, that helps with the shame.

“True Tales of Conversational Vengeance,” Matt Selman (TIME)
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Bites: Frank Portman’s playlist, Roger’s monograms, Michael Pollan, indie bookselling as football, and (maybe) one last mention of Inherent Vice .

On August 31, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Frank Portman, of one of my favorite pop-punk bands, Mr. T Experience, has a new book out called Andromeda Klein, and he gives Largehearted Boy a great playlist for Book Notes.
N+1: Not so into zombies/alien films, but likes District 9. Indichik put up an MP3 of Beach Fossils last week. I forgot to mention it, but it’s well worth mentioning considering this guy is putting out some of the best stuff I’ve heard all year. New York Times Book Review on “Desert” by J. M. G. Le Clézio Read More →

Weekend bites: Letters from John Hughes, continued Pynchon mania, Norman Mailor with his pants down, pop culture and the prez

On August 8, 2009 By Jason Diamond

The late John Hughes had a pen pal. Everybody is weighing in on Inherent Vice, and now, Three Guys One Book gives us a Youtube trailer to add to Pynchon Mania. Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeah’s) did some music for the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. The Rumpus shares some good advice from the late Budd Schulberg. At the New Museum, Norman Mailer is caught with his pants down, sort of, and it’s not pretty. Judy Garland was crazy, who knew? Oh wait… Kurt Anderson on how Obama is changing [...]
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Bites: Mapping Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, clamping down on the free wi-fi, Akron/Family

On August 6, 2009 By Jason Diamond

It seems appropriate to start this off with HTMLGIANT picking “Favorite First Sentences“ Papercuts points out that Thomas Pynchon is in fact, from the East Coast, and there needs to be an interactive map of Pynchon’s New York in response to the interactive map of LA that Wired provided us with last month. While some people are spending their summer reading Infinite Jest, Conversational Reading is working on “Westward the Course of the Empires Takes it’s Way”, and says it’s “Crude, naive, pretentious–absolutely”, but goes on to say “it’s still a novella worth discussing [...]
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Bites: Library flavored ice cream, John Wray, queer zines, Pynchon mania, and more

On July 31, 2009 By Jason Diamond

We’d just like to reiterate that if we have any weight to throw behind getting Ben and Jerry’s to make a library themed ice cream, we would totally throw that weight around. John Wray says that most readings are “intensly boring“. We want to nod, and agree, but, oh, wait, didn’t he do our reading? Dammit! Decider Chicago talks about the Queer Zine Archive Project. Jacket Copy gives us a preview of their Inherent Vice review. Why bother reading it when they give it all away with the quote; “it’s Pynchon doing Raymond [...]
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