[Pynchon has] defined for me, especially in Gravity’s Rainbow, what a novel can do, what ‘the point’ of deep, sustained attention to a long fiction can be. Jeff Severs The organizer of the International Pynchon Week: a “good Pynchonian”! Jeffrey Severs, who organizes the 2022 International Pynchon Week (IPW) in Vancouver, BC, Canada, grew up and […]
Umberto Rossi and Paolo Simonetti on Pynchon and the “IPW” in Rome
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, […]