{"id":5653,"date":"2014-01-25T09:58:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2014-01-25T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:58:06","slug":"pynchon-let-the-nonreader-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5653","title":{"rendered":"Pynchon: Let the Non-Reader Beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com\/2014\/01\/pynchon-literacy-and-dickens.html\">Are Pynchon and Dickens essentially the same writer?<\/a> Alan Jacobs notes, &#8220;The Pynchonian and the Dickensian projects have a great deal in common [big rambling eventful tragicomic books featuring outlandish characters with comical names], and as time goes on I think it will become more and more clear that there is something truly old-fashioned about Pynchon&#8217;s career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs says Pynchon&#8217;s style appears to be to write long, complex books about people who don&#8217;t read long books at all. His characters are caught up in the Interwebs, the TeleVision, and commercial products of all types.  He says Pynchon may be driving at a warning: let the non-reader beware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Pynchon and Dickens essentially the same writer? Alan Jacobs notes, &#8220;The Pynchonian and the Dickensian projects have a great deal in common [big rambling eventful tragicomic books featuring outlandish characters with comical names], and as time goes on I think it will become more and more clear that there is something truly old-fashioned about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pynchon: Let the Non-Reader Beware<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}