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| − | '''09/09/12''' - [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/09/pynchon-bleeding-edge-snowden/ '''Wired'''] - Jason Tanz: "Thomas Pynchon Returns as a Prophet of the Post-Snowden Era". | + | '''09/09/12''' - [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/09/pynchon-bleeding-edge-snowden/ '''Wired'''] - Jason Tanz: "Thomas Pynchon Returns as a Prophet of the Post-Snowden Era". [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/09/pynchon-bleeding-edge-snowden/ Entire review »] |
'''09/08/13''' - [http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20130908_Pynchon_s_potboiler_explores_9_11_attacks.html '''Phily.com'''] - Andrew Ervin: "Line by line, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, ''Bleeding Edge'' reveals the workings of an uncommonly humane thinker and uniquely American voice working at the peak of his talents." [http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20130908_Pynchon_s_potboiler_explores_9_11_attacks.html Entire review »] | '''09/08/13''' - [http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20130908_Pynchon_s_potboiler_explores_9_11_attacks.html '''Phily.com'''] - Andrew Ervin: "Line by line, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, ''Bleeding Edge'' reveals the workings of an uncommonly humane thinker and uniquely American voice working at the peak of his talents." [http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20130908_Pynchon_s_potboiler_explores_9_11_attacks.html Entire review »] | ||
| − | '''09/06/13''' - [http://mobile.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/09/thomas_pynchon_s_bleeding_edge_reviewed.html?original_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.slate.com%252Farticles%252Farts%252Fbooks%252F2013%252F09%252Fthomas_pynchon_s_bleeding_edge_reviewed.html%26h%3DUAQFxkREA%26s%3D1 '''Slate'''] - Troy Patterson: "His view of the tech world is captivating. Though he doesn’t attempt any grand-scale Balzacian social analysis of Silicon Alley, he gives the full Fitzgerald swoon to passages describing the ritual sacrifice of innocence on the altar of IPO ambition..." | + | '''09/06/13''' - [http://mobile.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/09/thomas_pynchon_s_bleeding_edge_reviewed.html?original_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.slate.com%252Farticles%252Farts%252Fbooks%252F2013%252F09%252Fthomas_pynchon_s_bleeding_edge_reviewed.html%26h%3DUAQFxkREA%26s%3D1 '''Slate'''] - Troy Patterson: "His view of the tech world is captivating. Though he doesn’t attempt any grand-scale Balzacian social analysis of Silicon Alley, he gives the full Fitzgerald swoon to passages describing the ritual sacrifice of innocence on the altar of IPO ambition..." [http://mobile.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/09/thomas_pynchon_s_bleeding_edge_reviewed.html?original_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.slate.com%252Farticles%252Farts%252Fbooks%252F2013%252F09%252Fthomas_pynchon_s_bleeding_edge_reviewed.html%26h%3DUAQFxkREA%26s%3D1 Entire review »] |
'''09/05/13''' - [http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/09/05/pynchonicity/ '''The Paris Review'''] - Gary Lippman: "More than any other recurring Pynchonian concept, paranoia receives nuanced treatment in the novelist’s work. A tendency toward the “p” word would seem to color his personal life as well: although he reputedly lives in plain sight on New York’s Upper West Side, he keeps his private life more private than that of any other major American artist. And, after being a stone Pynchonophile for nearly thirty years, I’ve finally started feeling a bit paranoid myself. It’s not the dot-com “hashslingrz,” Pynchon’s latest fictional conspiracy, that’s freaking me out, but the author himself." | '''09/05/13''' - [http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/09/05/pynchonicity/ '''The Paris Review'''] - Gary Lippman: "More than any other recurring Pynchonian concept, paranoia receives nuanced treatment in the novelist’s work. A tendency toward the “p” word would seem to color his personal life as well: although he reputedly lives in plain sight on New York’s Upper West Side, he keeps his private life more private than that of any other major American artist. And, after being a stone Pynchonophile for nearly thirty years, I’ve finally started feeling a bit paranoid myself. It’s not the dot-com “hashslingrz,” Pynchon’s latest fictional conspiracy, that’s freaking me out, but the author himself." | ||
[http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/09/05/pynchonicity/ Entire review »] | [http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/09/05/pynchonicity/ Entire review »] | ||
| − | '''09/03/13''' - [http://www.berfrois.com/2013/09/really/ '''Berfrois'''] - Albert Rolls. Originally published in [https://www.pynchon.net/owap/article/view/51/136 '''Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon''']: "The lightness, like that of Pynchon’s other short novels, is deceptive. Bleeding Edge is not simply the tale of Maxine’s investigation but an examination of the cultural direction America is headed in..." | + | '''09/03/13''' - [http://www.berfrois.com/2013/09/really/ '''Berfrois'''] - Albert Rolls. Originally published in [https://www.pynchon.net/owap/article/view/51/136 '''Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon''']: "The lightness, like that of Pynchon’s other short novels, is deceptive. Bleeding Edge is not simply the tale of Maxine’s investigation but an examination of the cultural direction America is headed in..." [http://www.berfrois.com/2013/09/really/ Entire review »] |
'''08/19/13''' - [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-423-4 '''Publishers Weekly'''] - David Kipen: "Published 50 years ago by long-gone J.B. Lippincott & Co., Thomas Pynchon's ''V.'' wasn't just the best first novel ever, it was a blueprint for his entire career. Much as that book yoyo-ed between an international femme fatale and a feckless contemporary klutz, the Pynchon shelf has alternated between globe-trotting, century-spanning bricks like ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), and impish, only slightly historical, California-set bagatelles like ''Inherent Vice'' (2009). Now comes ''Bleeding Edge'', a lovably scruffy comedy of remarriage, half-hidden behind the lopsided Groucho mask of Pynchon's second straight private-eye story. Like Ornette Coleman's riff on ''The Rite of Spring'', it starts out strong, misplaces the melody amid some delightfully surreal noodling, and finally swans away in sweet, lingering diminuendo." | '''08/19/13''' - [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-423-4 '''Publishers Weekly'''] - David Kipen: "Published 50 years ago by long-gone J.B. Lippincott & Co., Thomas Pynchon's ''V.'' wasn't just the best first novel ever, it was a blueprint for his entire career. Much as that book yoyo-ed between an international femme fatale and a feckless contemporary klutz, the Pynchon shelf has alternated between globe-trotting, century-spanning bricks like ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), and impish, only slightly historical, California-set bagatelles like ''Inherent Vice'' (2009). Now comes ''Bleeding Edge'', a lovably scruffy comedy of remarriage, half-hidden behind the lopsided Groucho mask of Pynchon's second straight private-eye story. Like Ornette Coleman's riff on ''The Rite of Spring'', it starts out strong, misplaces the melody amid some delightfully surreal noodling, and finally swans away in sweet, lingering diminuendo." | ||
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Please add any relevant reviews as they come in. Blog reviews are fine as long as they're substantial and more than a few paragraphs.
09/09/12 - Wired - Jason Tanz: "Thomas Pynchon Returns as a Prophet of the Post-Snowden Era". Entire review »
09/08/13 - Phily.com - Andrew Ervin: "Line by line, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, Bleeding Edge reveals the workings of an uncommonly humane thinker and uniquely American voice working at the peak of his talents." Entire review »
09/06/13 - Slate - Troy Patterson: "His view of the tech world is captivating. Though he doesn’t attempt any grand-scale Balzacian social analysis of Silicon Alley, he gives the full Fitzgerald swoon to passages describing the ritual sacrifice of innocence on the altar of IPO ambition..." Entire review »
09/05/13 - The Paris Review - Gary Lippman: "More than any other recurring Pynchonian concept, paranoia receives nuanced treatment in the novelist’s work. A tendency toward the “p” word would seem to color his personal life as well: although he reputedly lives in plain sight on New York’s Upper West Side, he keeps his private life more private than that of any other major American artist. And, after being a stone Pynchonophile for nearly thirty years, I’ve finally started feeling a bit paranoid myself. It’s not the dot-com “hashslingrz,” Pynchon’s latest fictional conspiracy, that’s freaking me out, but the author himself." Entire review »
09/03/13 - Berfrois - Albert Rolls. Originally published in Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon: "The lightness, like that of Pynchon’s other short novels, is deceptive. Bleeding Edge is not simply the tale of Maxine’s investigation but an examination of the cultural direction America is headed in..." Entire review »
08/19/13 - Publishers Weekly - David Kipen: "Published 50 years ago by long-gone J.B. Lippincott & Co., Thomas Pynchon's V. wasn't just the best first novel ever, it was a blueprint for his entire career. Much as that book yoyo-ed between an international femme fatale and a feckless contemporary klutz, the Pynchon shelf has alternated between globe-trotting, century-spanning bricks like Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and impish, only slightly historical, California-set bagatelles like Inherent Vice (2009). Now comes Bleeding Edge, a lovably scruffy comedy of remarriage, half-hidden behind the lopsided Groucho mask of Pynchon's second straight private-eye story. Like Ornette Coleman's riff on The Rite of Spring, it starts out strong, misplaces the melody amid some delightfully surreal noodling, and finally swans away in sweet, lingering diminuendo." Entire review »
