Seventy-Three: Shark Week
Posted on05.05: Bleeding Edge In this episode – doubly unprecedented! – we discuss chapters eleven through thirteen of Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge. For the next episode, we’ll look at chapters fourteen and fifteen.
Seventy-Two: Nobody Should Ever Wear Brown Shoes
Posted on05.04: Bleeding Edge In which we continue our discussion on Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge with a look at chapters nine and ten. We then do a short review session of the novel to this point. For the next episode, we’ll look at chapters eleven through thirteen.
Seventy-One: The Bladder Knew Where to Go
Posted on05.03: Bleeding Edge In which we continue our look at Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge with a discussion on chapters six through eight. For the next episode, we’ll look at chapters nine and ten.
Seventy: His Valentine to the Big Apple
Posted on05.02: Bleeding Edge In which we continue our look at Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge with a discussion of chapters three, four and five. For the next episode, we’ll look at chapters six through eight.
Sixty-Nine: You’re Gonna Get It in the Metaphor
Posted on05.01: Bleeding Edge We kick off Season Five with an introduction to Thomas Pynchon’s most recent novel, Bleeding Edge. We then have a look at the first two chapters. Enjoy! For the next episode, we’ll look at chapters three through five. NB: This season’s outro music was composed by Bo and Aug.
Announcing Season Five!
Posted onHappy Pynchon in Public Day, everyone! Since we finished Gravity’s Rainbow, when we would occasionally come out of the stupor that followed after spending two years on Pynchon’s most well-known – and possibly most difficult – work, people would ask us, “What’s up for next season?” The choice of what to do next is always difficult. It’s […]
Sixty-Eight: A Good Band (or, A Panelist in Ev’ry Mountainside, a Soul in Ev’ry Capstone
Posted on04.42: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we finally finish our examination of Gravity’s Rainbow. Thank you for joining us throughout this long season. We’ll be back with Season Five as soon as we’ve had a bit of a rest.
Sixty-Seven: Die or Be Arrested as War Criminals
Posted on04.40: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we wrap up the final section of Gravity’s Rainbow with a look back at The Counterforce.
Sixty-Six: The LSD…It’s Starting to Kick In…
Posted on04.39: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we finally, after two years of work, get to the end of Gravity’s Rainbow, with a look at the last half of the last chapter.
Sixty-Five: Not Quite Assless Chaps
Posted on04.38: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we have a go at the first half of the last chapter of Gravity’s Rainbow.
