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New Yorker, January 27, 2012
...or no big deal? The reprinting of Jack Green’s "Fire the Bastards!” recalls a strange case involving William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, and a nonexistent fish called Wanda. T. S. Eliot’s "The Waste Land” was "too penty” before Ezra Pound got his...
Harvard Business Review, January 11, 2012
...injustice in the English legal system helped the novel to spark legal reform that culminated in the 1870s. William Gaddis, JR — in the 1976 National Book Award winner, the 11-year old protagonist, JR, secretly trades penny stocks, using the tools of...
The Australian, December 14, 2011
...priest was obliged to kill off the old in the sacred wood. Which is what Franzen did to William Gaddis (The Recognitions, JR) in a 2002 essay called Mr Difficult in The New Yorker. In brief, some of us, the elderly perhaps, prefer Gaddis's challenges,...
Tufts Daily, November 18, 2011
...novels of the century clock in above 700 pages, but teaching Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973), William Gaddis' "The Recognitions" (1955) or Don DeLillo's "Underworld" (1997) is pretty tough. With these novels, it's not just the sheer amount of...
Irish Times, November 5, 2011
...as far as the brave are concerned. And the brave include writers such as Charles Dickens, James Joyce, William Gaddis and, of course, the most maverick of them all, the Chilean daredevil and poet turned novelist Roberto Bola?o. Author of The Savage...
Globe and Mail, September 16, 2011
...for characters’ actions. More related to this story The most commonly cited examples are the sprawling works of William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. It is perhaps a coincidence that most of these writers are difficult,...
Globe and Mail, September 14, 2011
...that provide a regulating framework for characters actions. The most commonly cited examples are the sprawling works of William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. It is perhaps a coincidence that most of these writers are...
biblioklept, October 5, 2011
...more than any other writer, has set the standard. He's raised the stakes.''Mr. DeLillo also praises William Gaddis for extending the possibilities of the novel by taking huge risks and making great demands on his readers. Yet many readers complain about...
BIG OTHER, September 27, 2011
...to assess the impact of 9/11 on American literature." Wood concisely points out Freeman's misreadings of William Gaddis’s The Recognitions (1955), Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow (1966 and 1973), Don DeLillo’s White...
MetaFilter, September 10, 2011
...Asking.Thomas Pynchon on war: "Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling."William Gaddis on justice.Don DeLillo, The Man Who Invented 9/11Joseph McElroy on 9-11: "A double you could call it. Work with it. Live with it."...
An und für sich, July 22, 2011
...especially helpful, what for Joyce's notorious character shifts. I'm told that somebody does something similar with William Gaddis' JR. If done well this could prove to be a boon for a good many reader.I'd not so much as picked up Ulysses since 2002....
Vulture, July 20, 2011
..." "I'm saying that if your mother kills herself it's not a literary trope." Even William Gaddis's The Recognitions , which is falling out of the canon faster than John Dos Passos, but is the biggest influence on Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest , gets a...
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes, July 15, 2011
...it the role of an exception that proves the rule. But isn’t that just as true of William Gaddis ‘ The Recognitions , the novel that inspired the article in the first place? Related: Gravity’s Rainbow was exceptional enough to be rejected by...
biblioklept, June 27, 2011
...From a brief 1982 interview with William Gaddis---Q: The pervasive and distinctive authorial voice of The Recognitions gives way in J R to a self-effacing voice that seems to serve only functional purposes. Also in J R there is an increased...
