Gravity's Rainbow critique and Pynchon's tactics

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Books mentioned in this episode:

The Return by Roberto Bolano

https://amzn.to/4c1EHcP

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898180

Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano

https://amzn.to/4e7mUlK

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898142

A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano

https://amzn.to/41kyyST

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250338570

Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano

https://amzn.to/4mmFPes

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735222908

The Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano

https://amzn.to/4tANrwj

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250037824

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

https://amzn.to/4tGaTsb

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451419439

The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano

https://amzn.to/4c5Xhis

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

https://amzn.to/3PEng9t

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

https://amzn.to/4tGjvPu

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141180632

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

https://amzn.to/4vkkYwh

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

https://amzn.to/47RagU8

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

https://amzn.to/3O4QVIp

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374666

JR by William Gaddis

https://amzn.to/48mHYks

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680

Malina by Ingebore Bachmann

https://amzn.to/4mq1ylU

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

https://amzn.to/4t5kxVg

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrry

https://amzn.to/41nIIlC

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781439195260

Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter

https://amzn.to/4lQFsIF

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400

Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter

https://amzn.to/47SjKhR

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

https://amzn.to/4dWs6ZR

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921

War Trash by Ha Jin

https://amzn.to/4cgQ7Ii

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400075799

Trieste by Dasa Drndic

https://amzn.to/4b5IQMe

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504

Passing by Nella Larsen 

https://amzn.to/4cel3sF

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437278

Natural Causes by Nina Lykke

https://amzn.to/4tBmuIM

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830669

The Dying Grass by William Vollmann

https://amzn.to/47UMMxs

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143109402