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The Best Novels about the History of the United States

Jan 19, 2025 | fivebooks.com | Don DeLillo |Thomas Pynchon |William T. Vollmann |Richard Wright

recommended by Bernard T. Joy An exploration of the history of the United States may require novels that are challenging to read but offer the reward of really making you think about a complex subject. Literary scholar Bernard T. Joy talks us through five novels that explore U.S. history, from colonial times to the end of the 20th century. You’ve chosen five novels about the history of the United States. Can you explain what you mean by that, and what kind of books you were looking for?
Playing with Registers

Dec 7, 2024 | ninaschuyler.substack.com | Thomas Pynchon |Nina Schuyler

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Pynchon’s sentence begins authoritatively and ends in a distant colloquial land with an invented word (according to Merriam-Webster, though Urban Dictionary tells a different story). James Wood writes in How Fiction Works, “One way to tell slick genre prose from really interesting writing is to look, in the former case, for the absence of different registers.”Register refers to the variety of languages used for different purposes.
Celebrity-Birthdays-May08

May 8, 2024 | richmond-news.com | Thomas Pynchon

Celebrity Birthdays for May 8:Naturalist Sir David Attenborough is 98. Author Thomas Pynchon is 87. Singer Toni Tennille is 84. Actor James Mitchum is 83. Country singer Jack Blanchard is 82. Bassist Paul Samwell-Smith (The Yardbirds) is 81. Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett is 79. Actor Mark Blankfield ("Robin Hood: Men in Tights," ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman") is 76. Drummer Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and of Tom Tom Club is 73. Singer Philip Bailey (solo and with Earth, Wind and Fire) is 73.
Celebrity-Birthdays-May08

May 3, 2024 | vancouverisawesome.com | Thomas Pynchon

Celebrity Birthdays for May 8:Naturalist Sir David Attenborough is 98. Author Thomas Pynchon is 87. Singer Toni Tennille is 84. Actor James Mitchum is 83. Country singer Jack Blanchard is 82. Bassist Paul Samwell-Smith (The Yardbirds) is 81. Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett is 79. Actor Mark Blankfield ("Robin Hood: Men in Tights," ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman") is 76. Drummer Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and of Tom Tom Club is 73. Singer Philip Bailey (solo and with Earth, Wind and Fire) is 73.
Slow Learner: Early Stories with an Introduction by the Author

Mar 11, 2024 | citylights.com | Thomas Pynchon

Early short stories by Thomas Pynchon, introduced by the author and praised as “an exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers” by the New Republic.Thomas Pynchon’s literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, V., but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here.
The Retreat - Anderson Valley Advertiser

Jun 7, 2023 | theava.com | Thomas Pynchon

Described in Agro World as “a sort of Esalen Institute for lady asskickers,” the mountainside retreat of the Sisterhood of Kunoichi Attentives stood on a promontory dappled in light and dark California greens above a small valley, only a couple of ridgelines from the SP tracks, final ascent being over dirt roads vexing enough to those who arrived in times of mud, and so deeply rutted when the season was dry that many an unwary seeker was brought to a high-centered pause out in this oil...
CAMP Days In The Emerald Triangle

May 16, 2023 | theava.com | Thomas Pynchon

Zoyd had been staying with planters he knew up by Holytail, beyond the coastal ranges and the yearlong fogs, in a valley where marijuana growing conditions were ideal — about the last refuge for pot growers in North California. Access, at least by road, wasn’t easy — because of the Great Slide of ’64, you had to double back and forth along both sides of the river and take ferries, which weren’t always running, and bridges said to be haunted.
Celebrity-Birthdays-May08

May 5, 2023 | vancouverisawesome.com | Thomas Pynchon

Celebrity Birthdays for May 8:Naturalist Sir David Attenborough is 97. Author Thomas Pynchon is 86. Singer Toni Tennille is 83. Actor James Mitchum is 82. Country singer Jack Blanchard is 81. Bassist Paul Samwell-Smith (The Yardbirds) is 80. Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett is 78. Actor Mark Blankfield ("Robin Hood: Men in Tights," ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman") is 75. Drummer Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and of Tom Tom Club is 72. Singer Philip Bailey (solo and with Earth, Wind and Fire) is 72.