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I really like the work of Thomas Pynchon, from novels to short stories.

What other authors/contemporaries of his should I check out? Or what do other fans of his work enjoy?

>> No.3793273

i dunno, general postmodernism? If you're a strong enough reader to fully "get" gravity's rainbow i'd suggest moving on to Joseph McElroy's Women and Men, but it's massive and tough so if you aren't looking for that type of thing then i dunno read vonnegut while on acid

>> No.3793276

Check out authors who were a major influence on his work, like William Gaddis and John Hawkes

>> No.3793283

DFW, Gaddis, Borges, Moby Dick

the usual suspects

>> No.3793284

>>3793273
They don't even print Women and Men anymore, do they?

>> No.3793298

>>3793276

I read The Frog by John Hawkes, and it was fucking weird. But a good weird. He's like the Jim Jarmusch of novels.

Also, I think Donald Barthelme is rather close to Pynchon in spirit and does for short fiction what Pynchon did for long fiction.

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>>3793273
this
>>3793284
Out of print, yes. But Dzanc has an ebook edition that will be released soon.

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>>3793265
William T Vollmann. Look no further. Vollmann's work has been likened to Pynchon from the beginning, and WTV is probably the largest brain writing lit today. Makes DFW look like young adult novels.

>> No.3793499

>>3793491
Vollman can't write. He makes DFW look like Cervantes.

>> No.3793505

>>3793491
They're both poseurs, IMO.

>> No.3793530

>>3793499
lol

>> No.3793767

I love Pynchon, but while I can see the connection in literary movement terms, the rest of the postmodernists touch a very different nerve.

For unhinged prose, The Satanic Verses. For descriptions of outlier mental specimens, The Right Stuff by Wolfe. For whimsy Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan. For life lived in a sick crew, Kerouac or HS Thompson or whatever. And, yeah, Moby Fucking Dick.

>> No.3793784

>>3793491
Europe Central was just plain boring. Down with William Vollman; up with Mark Volman!

>> No.3793992

Has Pynchon ever done any interviews that are available online?

>> No.3794464

>>3793992
no

>> No.3794495

>>3793298
>He's like the Jim Jarmusch of novels.

That whole little paragraph was very stupid, but what do you mean by this?