Episodes
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In this week's bonus episode, Cody discusses the metafictional, post-noir detective novel The Red Handler—simultaneously a love letter to and hilarious deconstruction of the hardboiled stories of the 30's and 40's. It's a highly entertaining and brilliantly written novel that anyone who loves hardboiled/noir novels is sure to enjoy.
Grab a copy here: https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/red-handler
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We've finished another Pynchon book and convene once more to talk about Bleeding Edge; this time in its entirety. We're joined by Andrew, better known as Byron's Glowing Filament on Twitter and the creator of the Gravity's Rainbow Analysis substack (link below).
We’re taking a (well-earned) break and will be back some time in November to start Against the Day.
In the meantime, we’re going to be releasing some bonus episodes until our return, so stay tuned for those.
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Andrew's Gravity’s Rainbow Analysis Substack: https://gravitysrainbow.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
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Missing episodes?
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We apologize in advance for some audio issues which presented themselves after we had finished recording. We've done our best to clean them up and make everything sound as good as possible.
Information on the guest for our Bleeding Edge wrap-up episode, as well as our next book and schedule changes for the show going forward are at the end of the discussion.
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https://ko-fi.com/mappingthezone
https://vimeo.com/73716114 (Bleeding Edge trailer)
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media that relates to these chapters:
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The article mentioned by Luke: “Hallowe’en? Over Already?” https://x.com/Ethelmer77/status/963687634483793920?lang=en
If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media that relates to these chapters:
Books/Authors: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright, The Trial by Franz Kafka
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media that relates to these chapters:
Music: Mitch Hedberg - Mitch All Together, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart - Bob Newhart, Riot Grrrl music
Books/Authors: The Shock Doctrine (2007) and No Logo (1999) by Naomi Klein, https://www.jsasoc.com/docs/Sep1101.pdf (Global Consciousness Project analysis), When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
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We are off this week, so Kate has recorded a reading of Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson, taken from his "Hey Rube" column for ESPN Page 2.
We will be back on 26 July 2024 to continue our read-through of Bleeding Edge.
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We're off this week, so Kate has provided a reading of John Perry Barlow's 1996 article, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.
We will be back on 26 July 2024 to continue our read-through of Bleeding Edge.
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media that relates to these chapters:
Films/TV: The Thin Man; In the Toilet (fan made song)
Books/Authors: Thomas Pynchon’s Silicon Alley by Mike Godwin, The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media that relates to these chapters:
Films/TV: Archive 81(Netflix)
Music: Big L, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z
Books/Authors: Hunter S. Thompson
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media that relates to these chapters:
Films/TV: Primer (2004; dir. Shane Carruth); Motherless Brooklyn (dir. Edward Norton, Jr.)
Music: Tiny Desk Unit - Live At the 9:30 Club 1980; Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Books: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson; Motherless Brooklyn by Johnathan Lethem; The Power Broker by Robert Caro; Amerikastudien: “Bright Days for the Black Market”: Color-Coded Crises in Contemporary U.S. Fiction and the Works of Thomas Pynchon
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media we talked about:
Films/TV: Spaced (1999-2001)
Music: Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin; Goblin (various film scores)
Books: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff; Falling Man by Don DeLilo
As always, thanks so much for listening!
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media we talked about:
Films/TV: Lost Highway (1997; dir. David Lynch)
Music: Elvis Hitler - Green Haze: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4FFgxJsjqkg
Books: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
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We didn't really have any noteworthy recommendations of other media to tie into these chapters (or the book in general) this week, but we hope you had a wonderful Pynchon In Public day on Wednesday.
Just a reminder that we are off next week, so the next episode will be out on 24 May 2024.
As always, thanks so much for listening!
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media we talked about:
Films/TV: Aretha Franklin “Nessun Dorma” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k33sINjn9o0
Books: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
Pynchon In Public Day is 08 May 2024. Feel free to send a picture to the Pynchon In Public Twitter page @pynchoninpublic
As always, thanks so much for listening!
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https://ko-fi.com/mappingthezone
If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media we talked about:
Films/TV: Office Space (1999; dir. Mike Judge)
Books: The Declaration of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow; Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig; Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace; The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (watch the Hulu Miniseries Adaptation, as well)
Pynchon In Public Day is 08 May 2024. Feel free to send a picture to the Pynchon In Public Twitter page @pynchoninpublic
As always, thanks so much for listening!
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media we talked about:
Books: Meet Me In the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman; 9/11 as Mass Ritual by S.K. Bains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Monster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center#Controversy
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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media we talked about:
Films/TV: We Live In Public (2009; dir. Ondi Timoner)
Music: Satan Is Real by The Louvin Brothers
Books: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
“Postmodern Syllabus” (mentioned in My Dinner With Will and Kate): https://tildes.net/~books/rf7/if_you_had_to_teach_a_class_on_literature_what_books_would_you_put_on_your_syllabus
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Kate and Cody took advantage of the break to spend some time talking about one of their favorite artists, David Bowie. A wildly talented artist, Bowie's influence is wider reaching than many might have known. Whether you're a longtime fan of Bowie and his discography or you've never heard any of his music (you have, you just don't know it was him), we hope you enjoy our long overdue discussion on one of the most important musicians of all time.
Links to things mentioned:
Dissonance tour performance (Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sP1CTuIjs
David Bowie and Placebo - “Without You, I’m Nothing”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c14qMbmP9eg
Venture Bros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1X3vl8QMYk
David Bowie & Robert Smith (The Cure): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krhzq6C1EBw
Flight of the Conchords - "Bowie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8f_XCH3zmM
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In the latest Mapping the Zone bonus episode, Luke explores the world of Octavia E. Butler, with a particular emphasis on her Patternist series.
We'll be back on 12 April 2024 to begin our exploration of Bleeding Edge!
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