EP 4: Systems, Scandals, and Literary Hoaxes (w/Alex Shephard)

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Slow Learners

Ian Scuffling

23 episodes

2 days ago

A podcast about big books. Season One is devoted to a reading an analysis of Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel "Gravity's Rainbow," and other issues directly related to the text.

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A podcast about big books. Season One is devoted to a reading an analysis of Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel "Gravity's Rainbow," and other issues directly related to the text.

Books

Arts

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EP 4: Systems, Scandals, and Literary Hoaxes (w/Alex Shephard)

Slow Learners

57 minutes 6 seconds

2 years ago

EP 4: Systems, Scandals, and Literary Hoaxes (w/Alex Shephard)

We continue our journey "Beyond the Zero," covering Gravity's Rainbow, Part 1, Chapters 14-17.

And: Alex Shephard (The New Republic) joins us to talk about literary hoaxes, Pynchonian mysteries, how Gravity's Rainbow scandalized the hoity-toity world of arts and letters.

Other topics include: S&M, prosthetic vaginas, church ceremonies, "The Book," by Pavlov, Thomas Pynchon's jump-shot.

Read ⁠Proverbs For Paranoids,⁠ John's guide to Gravity's Rainbow.

E-mail us your questions, queries, and crackpot theories: slowlearnerspod@gmail.com