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Joined October 2023
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We have created a BookShop affiliate store. Why? Well, it's a good place to index all the books we talk about on the show. And if you buy them using our affiliate links, we get a modest taste to keep our immortal lightbulbs burning. Check it out! bookshop.org/shop/slowlearne…
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"We have Trent Kite, with have Tiny Ewell, we have LaMont Chu, we have Rodney 'Rod the God' Tine, we have Dr. Wo, we have M. Broullîme, we have Susan T. Cheese, we have the Ottowan Paparazzo, we have Guglielmo Redondo, we have all these characters..."
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I bought the book by Cowart, which is insightful thus far. Found my way to him via this podcast and other channels. Good to read that Cowart considers Pynchon to be the best historical novelist of all time.
This week: we close out the first section of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, and talk to professor and Pynchon scholar David Cowart about the novel's relationship to the unruly canon of postmodern literature. BUCKLE UP LIL PARDS!
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"We have Trent Kite, with have Tiny Ewell, we have LaMont Chu, we have Rodney 'Rod the God' Tine, we have Dr. Wo, we have M. Broullîme, we have Susan T. Cheese, we have the Ottowan Paparazzo, we have Guglielmo Redondo, we have all these characters..."
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if you love arguing with me about this you should check out the forthcoming season of @slowlearnerspod, where I will be sharing this and other more risible opinions—to, in Wallacean argot, “the max.”
“We have Hugh ‘Helen’ Steeply, we have Po’ Tony Krause, we have Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner, we have the Near Eastern Medical Attaché, we have Lateral Alice Moore, we have all these characters…”
There's such a reflexive embarrassment in refusing to admit he's trying to be funny. "I thought it was actually quite sad..." No shit. Garbage trucks being catapulted into a radioactive "concavity" IS sad. It's also hilarious.
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I (John) is about halfway through an INFINITE JEST re-read, and immersed if Foster-Wallacia. EASILY the most annoying thing about the guy is his refusal to admit his book is funny. So frustrating. The book is literally set in "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment"! That's funny!
Mostly, we think it would be a fun excuse to cover stuff like:
-avant- and "apres-" garde filmmaking
-Quebecois and other Canadian separatist movements
-smoking too much weed
-the Arizona Cardinals special teams squad
-whatever a "Sierpiński gasket" is
-ONANism, gooning, etc.
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We may pivot of TP and cover INFINITE JEST next, if only because it's in the Geist. Also, re-reading it for the first time in 20 years, there's so much good stuff. And also a lot of incredibly annoying stuff! Much to ponder...
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John wrote about INFINITE JEST, and the guy who called your beloved Slow Learners hosts "litbros."
INFINITE JEST is back, baby! and so, I wonder, in an age of nosediving fiction consumption, "performative reading," and "post-literate" culture: can the dreaded litbro be redeemed? for @WIRED. wired.com/story/infinite-jes…
