Seen Forces: Thomas Pynchon’s BLEEDING EDGE (2013)

First edition hardcover (2013) Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge (2013) -- while perhaps less overtly erudite and headache-inducing than his previous masterworks -- offers an eveloping, conspiracy-fueled view of the days before and after September 11th, 2001 in New York City. Like most readers, I approached Bleeding Edge as Pynchon-lite, which can be forgiven if one... Continue Reading →

Existential Subjectivity in Pynchon’s THE CRYING OF LOT 49

"Shall I project a world?" (64). Page numbers are taken from this Harper Perennial edition. Is Thomas Pynchon's 1966 classic, The Crying of Lot 49, subtly a work of Existentialist fiction? It's more plausible than you think. In many ways, Oedipa Mass's search for truth throughout a Tristero-controlled Southern California represents her search for the... Continue Reading →

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