More Pynchon

August 30, 2009

I also bought The Watchmen on his recommendation. One of the authors we both loved and mourned was Kurt Vonnegut. I’m glad to hear that he at least got to start the latest Pynchon. My copy came in the mail a few days after he died and I remember thinking how sorry I was I wouldn’t get to hear what he had to say about it. I remember when he was reviewing Mason & Dixon: we started talking about Pynchon’s use of capitalization and he was saying that when he first read some eighteenth century novel or other (Tom Jones, maybe?) it changed the way he read books b/c of the different emphasis the capitalizations gave.

Emily Schulman