Author of SQUIMBOP CONDITION, BERLIN WALL, DODGE CITY, ANGEL HOUSE, PORNME, NEW HOUSE, NEW FLESH, & DRIFTER. Co-hosts @wakeislandpod, Column in @SouthwestReview
"If you are real butchers, as you claim to be, expend all the butchery within you upon the task at hand. The Night Crusher will supervise, and will return you here, in one piece should you succeed and in several should you shirk."
And don't miss the MADNESS episode: strange fates of several real figures referenced in the book, and the stories of one Pynchonian figure who may have proved ESP in the SHADOW TICKET era (J.B. Rhine) and another (Moritz Schlick) whose work made such things unmentionable in intellectual society. Here's a preview:
Icymi, the great David Leo Rice (@raviddice) joined me for a great conversation about Pynchon's latest: SHADOW TICKET. Here's a clip. Link to full episode below:
“Terrified, she heard the noise of a head being kicked against the wall like the future.”
📌ICYMI, read FLYING HEAD by Mónica Ojeda (tr. Sarah Booker) from our spring issue
https://t.co/07iycC9AV9
I think the theme of all my books is characters fighting to stay sane through infinite nonsense, while also wondering if that nonsense holds the key to everything.