Why did he decide to publish his novel on October 7?
spooky gematria reasons i would guesstimate
/pol/ dogwhistle
>>24703708So it would be the second best thing to ever happen on that blessed day
>>24703773
This might be the last Pynchon we ever get other than some stuff culled from his archive after he dies and it is opened up. I like to think he has one last novel, one he has been working on for decades and intends for it to be released after he dies.
>>24703808Still would like to see an American Civil War novel on the scale of Against the Day, but I think it's just a pipe dream.
>why is book being released on a TuesdayWhat a fuckin mystery. Have you faggots ever bought a new book before?
>>24703842If he did that it would be Lot49/IV tier, Civil War period does not work with his style/goals in his big novels. >>24703843Plotfags learn to hear quotation marks.
>>24703708Wanted to give people just enough time to finish the superior new door stopper
>>24704115Shadow Ticket is not a door stopper.
>>24704130He’s not even trying any more is he?
>>24704144Your favorite translator not getting enough attention on /lit/?I would say Pynchon only produced two door stoppers proper, M&D and AtD, but what does length even matter? If you can accomplish your goals in 10 pages then writing a door stopper will not serve your goals. I love long novels but being long has no bearing on quality.
>>24703708Between this and woody Allen’s book this month Im fucking hyped for intelligent old man kino
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>>24704172In the publishing industry, a certain length is expected. You can't sit and read a ten page book for very long. Generally speaking you need 40k to 60k words at least for a proper novel.Publishing is a business, movies also have a minimum length. You have to fill the pages. That is actually one of the hardest things about longform writing.
>>24704564As a journalist I would crank out maybe 1k to 3k words a day, though I was often only expected to write a 700 word article per day.You wouldn't sit by a campfire to listen to a 10 word story. That would hardly pass the time. Novels were the primary form of entertainment before radio.
>>24704574Entertaining Americans through time:>Novels>Radio>Film>Television>Video games>Online digital mediaLivestreaming is the new hotness.
>>24704577Here's an idea to steal:Livestreaming book readings.Just sit there and read a longform book.People will tune in just to for the company honestly.That is what livestreaming basically is to be honest.I'm not gonna do this, you can steal the idea.
>>24704588>listening to a zoomer read>It was the best of times. It was the worse of times. Bruuuuhh this shit fire for real thoI’d rather shoot myself
>>24704563Thank you for attending my art show with your girlfriend anon
>>24704577Novels actually came after radio, reading was niche before public education had developed beyond basics. Vaudeville, theater, story telling and the like are what was before radio. You can't even conceive of a pre-internet world, can you?
surprised this badboy hasnt leaked yet
>>24704654Advanced copies are already out, but not many people who get advanced copies are interested in scanning an entire book to feed retards on the internet.
>>24704670>Advanced copies are already out,i mean no shit, that's why i'm surprised, my baseline is the final two mccarthy books, i think they leaked way more than a month before publication
>>24704681That was just an anon who posted a couple excerpts and could have been the work of the marketing firm in charge of promotion. Books rarely leak (genre might be an exception?) readers are not in a rush, they like to take their time and enjoy the anticipation. Also, McCarthy fans are a special sort of autist.
>>24704691are you sure it was only a couple of excerpts? i feel like the excerpts came out way way before the book, but the leaks still came out months before, but i could be wrong>readers are not in a rush, they like to take their time and enjoy the anticipationyes you don't hear much about book leaks. maybe you don't hear about any leaks, besides sports contracts
>>24704593More like <insert celebrity> reading Lord of the Rings, an author reading their own book, or something like that.
>>24704715Steve Colbert dressing like a hobbit and reading LOTR would cause me to kill myself.
>>24704144>longer book = bettercringe
>>24703708Because he was busy on the 6th and 8th, silly billy>>24704807It's true, Brandon Sanderson is the best writer ever
>>24704563they are cute
>>24704563>upstaging the exhibit with nothing but your presenceTotal Chad move.
>>247037081 MONTH REMAINING, PYNCHADS
>private eyechange the fucking record tommy
>>24703773I fucking hope so.
>>24704588>Livestreaming book readings.Wendigoon does this by the way
>>24703773So, it has scat, pedo shit (ambiguous?) and some vague entity to blame for your getting a confusing erection?
>>24705405Pynchon always wanted to be a genre fiction author. Vineland, Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge, and now Shadow Ticket are him indulging in genre fiction with postmodern characteristics.
>>24705465>he really wanted to be a genre author and crack out books left and right but instead he decided to spend decades agonizing over 3 novels because it seemed less work than easy money.
>>24704636Novels were a primary form of entertainment in the 19th century well before radio. For example, Les Misérables was a popular page turner for the soldiers of the American Civil War both North and South.
>>24705468Read the introduction to Slow Learner where he said that he was divided by the kind of novels he wanted to write.
>>24705481Primary form of entertainment for the tiny fraction of the population that could read, not primary form of entertainment for people. >>24705486nta but that does not actually support your argument, waffle at best. From what I remember of the Slow Learner intro, he was not debating between genre and lit fiction but between the rigorous balls to wall rigorous sort of lit fiction and the more general consumption sort lit fiction where he would be free too indulge himself. it has been years since I read it but I think I got it right, the stories in Slow Learner certainly support it.
>>24705507>tiny fraction of the population that could read>19 Century???
>>24705508Yes. Most who could read in the 19th century would be a 5th/6th grade level by modern standards. This did not start changing until the very end of the 19th.
>>24705507You're right, and I did check the introduction again. His views on genre fiction (science fiction, fantasy) was in eliciting how he, as an apprentice writer early on, dealt with the subject of mortality as the narrator of his early stories.>"I suspect one of the reasons that fantasy and science fiction appeal so much to younger readers is that, when the space and time have been altered to allow characters to travel easily anywhere through the continuum and thus escape physical dangers and timepiece inevitabilities, mortality is so seldom an issue."
>>24705507now i'm hungry for waffles
>>24703708>why did he dogwhistle U8200 in Sneeding Edge apropos of nothing
>>24703808It's already an Against the Day rehash. Hospice care in NYC is expensive.>>24705465>Pynchon always wanted to be a genre fiction author.Worse than I thought in that light.
>>24706238Make enough for the whole class if you're gonna bring out the waffle iron.
>>24704115>ordering off amazon
>>24704588Many camwhores do this.
>>24705465and yet his best work was M&D
>>24706719Agreed
>>24704563This dude knows his stuff
>>24706719No it was obviously GR you contrarian fucks
>>24706238I just ordered picrel because of you.
>>24707304Your life just got objectively better.
>>24707364It did. I also ordered a two burner griddle, going to make myself a massive breakfast when they arrive. For whatever reason, I never got around to replacing my cast iron two burner griddle and waffle maker after I ended up with a cooktop, been years since I have had waffles.
