rare pynchon

Maasists and Slothropians may find these of interest:

(1)

Small Archive : Complete run of Unauthorized Editions of Thomas Pynchon as noted in the Mead bibliography plus two variants not noted in Mead. Mortality and Mercy in Vienna; Lowlands; The Secret Integration; Entropy; The

(2)

Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas PYNCHON

Halmoni

"We were silent as we wheeled Halmoni back to her room. I scooped her up by the shoulders as Mom lifted her legs. My grandmother's bony back pressed against me, this delicate body that had survived her dog of a husband, my grandfather. We lay her down on the bed. I wanted to say goodbye, but her face was drained and soft, her eyes already closed."

~~ from Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong

Philip Roth wasn't about to lose a minute

 

~~ from I Will Do Better by Charles Bock

Citywide Lunch

Submit to Citywide Lunch.

Auggie and others

It's the perfect week to purchase a copy of Auggie's Revenge.

Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong

Ryan Lee Wong's Which Side Are You On is primarily a short, satisfying novel of Korean American experience in South California, but it also connects to Black American experience, the L.A. riots, Chinese, Black, and Korean activism, mother-son relationships, and more. I searched online while reading this past week and learned via Facebook post that his father passed on earlier this year; the dad in the book bears a strong resemblance to the father of the obituary.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We're thankful for you as well as good news from Eclectica Magazine.

And the Canon Rap Got Played

Read a zany one here or here.

brief note on White Mythology

I finished the longer of the two novels included in W.D. Clarke's White Mythology, and I highly recommend it. The novel I read is about 335 pages, and it is followed by a novella of about 120 pages. The longer one includes extraordinary sentences very reminiscent, at times, of the prose we see in early Pynchon, some Barth, Rushdie, and so on.

Rick Harsch's Recent Literary Acts

Find history here of Corona\Samizdat Press.