Tag: Joseph W. Slade

• Rocket Man: Thomas Pynchon Again

  I thoroughly enjoyed Writers For the 70’s: Thomas Pynchon by Joseph Slade.  Here are some notes I took while reading, but keep in mind, these notes represent only a small part of what Pynchon’s work is all about.  One of Pynchon’s preoccupations is that the 20th Century was the age of oil, from which we derive, not only…

  Bill Ectric

  March 13, 2011

  benzene, gravity’s rainbow, Joseph Slade, Joseph W. Slade, polymers, postmodern fiction, Rod Jayrod, steve aylett, The Velocity Gospel, Thomas Pynchon, V., writing

• Good Reading Ahead

  Two books arrived in the mail yesterday! Thomas Pynchon (1974, Warner Paperback Library), by Joseph W. Slade, is a detailed analysis of all Pynchon’s short stories and novels up through Gravity’s Rainbow, which was Pynchon’s most recent book at the time this study was written. In the preface, Slade’s list of prerequisites for studying Pynchon include, among others, Joseph…

  Bill Ectric

  February 9, 2011

  1970’s, Claudia Moscovici, Joseph Slade, Joseph W. Slade, Post-Stalinist Romania, Thomas Pynchon, Velvet Totalitarianism, writers, Writers For the 70’s, writing