I’d really like to see someone in the States offering to host the next IPW. All the IPWs have been held in Europe, but I do believe it’s time that Tom gets back home. Umberto Rossi 2019 Rossi & Simonetti talk about their personal Pynchon experiences and organizing the IPW in Rome Earlier this year, […]
“Pynchon” in Rome
Dumque suis victrix septembre de montibus orbe prospiciet domitum Martia Roma, legar. As long as Rome, City of Mars, from its seven hills looks down upon a world conquered, people will read me. Ovid (43 BC – AD 17), Tristien III 7, 51f. (translation by Utz Klöppelt) The International Pynchon Week in Rome Consider the […]
Reading Pynchon in Public
Pynchon fans tend to be somewhat reclusive […]. From the “About” page of Pynchon in Public Get ready for “Pynchon in Public Day”! Scattered all over the world on May 8 mysterious signs appear on letterboxes and Pynchon books pop up in public – on buses, in cafés and bars, on public places, read by […]
Elfriede Jelinek and “Gravity’s Rainbow”
Es ist ein Witz, dass er den Nobelpreis nicht hat, und ich habe ihn. Ich halte Pynchon für einen der bedeutendsten lebenden Schriftsteller, weit vor Philip Roth übrigens. Ich kann doch den Nobelpreis nicht kriegen, wenn Pynchon ihn nicht hat! Das ist gegen die Naturgesetze. Ich wünsche, das festgehalten zu haben. It is a joke he hasn’t received the Nobel […]
Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award (2018) to Thomas Pynchon
It’s about time … New award for literature to Thomas Pynchon On March 20, the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that Thomas Pynchon has been awarded the inaugural biennial Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award for a „writer of distinction who has made a significant contribution to American Literature“.1 The award-winning ceremony will take place in New York City on […]