Tag: Thomas Pynchon

• Forrest Aguirre’s Fantastic Fugue – Interview by Bill Ectric

  Forrest Aguirre is an American fantasy and horror author, and winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for his editing work on Leviathan 3. His fiction has been published in numerous genre periodicals and in the collection Fugue XXIX. His first novel is Swans Over the Moon. He often writes about Africa, and is deeply interested in the continent. Zoran Zivkovic,…

  Bill Ectric

  July 22, 2013

  Aleister Crowley, Bible, Borges, Brian Evenson, Dante, fantasy, Forrest Aguirre, Fugue XXIX, historical fiction, history, horror, horror writers, Jorge Luis Borges, Mason & Dixon, Old Testament, Rikki Ducornet, Science Fiction, Swans Over the Moon, The SF Site, Thomas Ligotti, Thomas Pynchon, Zoran Zivkovic

• 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