Jan 10, 2023
One thing mentioned in all the tidying up advice columns around the new year, you are unlikely to reread book from your bookshelf. To disprove that, I’m reviewing my Pynchon collection. Including some interesting book markers and some dust, so far they are holding up well. I reread the last half of Bleeding Edge and am restarting the introduction to Slow Learner, where the author digresses about the craft of writing and how he developed his art circa 1983. His mention of the Beat writers and that generation brought up Herbert Gold, someone I’m completely unfamiliar with.
I stare at the spines of Mason & Dixon, Vineland, and Inherent Vice and think this could take some time. But, the best one for random reading selection has to be .V, so many stories within stories in that one. What happened to my copy of The Crying of Lot 49? I can’t find it.