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Book-long sources mentioned in the video, in alphabetical order:
Cowart - Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History
Dalsgaard, Herman & McHale, eds - The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
Herman & Weisenburger - Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, & Freedom
Weisenburger - A Gravity's Rainbow Companion
Another great secondary source you may wish to check out is Mark Richard Siegel's Creative Paranoia in Gravity's Rainbow. As a study of the novel, it is clearly written, well argued, entertaining, cautious in the best of ways and enlightening. Why haven't I mentioned it? Mainly because it's very rare these days - check local libraries but don't get your hopes too high.
Richard Locke's original NY Times review:
archive.nytimes.com/nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Jonathan Lethem's "The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction:"
hipsterbookclub.livejournal.com/1147850.html
The Gravity's Rainbow's Pynchon Wiki homepage:
gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
The Pynchon in Public's reading guide podcast on Gravity's Rainbow (heads-up: they've also recorded three more guides, and will soon do one on Bleeding Edge):
pynchoninpublicpodcast.com/reading-guides/gravitys-rainbow-reading-guide
READING PROJECT'S SCHEDULE
All of these breaks, when they are not marked by the end of one of the novel's four parts, correspond to the last line or first line of a sub-chapter, so it shouldn't be too hard to locate them.
The page number on which each section ends is given. The letters close to the number indicate different editions.
VN: 2013 Vintage edition with multicolor silhouettes of rockets on the cover and red spine.
This edition has the SAME page layout as the 2000 Vintage edition with all the tiny characters and items drawn on the cover over a white field.
O: 1995 Vintage edition with collage of pin-ups, rockets and explosions on the cover.
This edition has the SAME page layout as the original 1973 Viking edition of the novel.
PD: 2005 Penguin Deluxe edition, black and white cover with the silhouette of a rocket.
Thanks to Richard and Hunter for the help with the page numbers!
- September 6th: Introduction.
- September 20th: 1/8: Frontispiece to "Their footprints filled with ice, and a little later they were taken out to sea." Page: VN 109; O 92; PD 94.
- October 4th: 2/8: From "In silence, hidden from her" to the end of part 1. Page: VN 211; O 177; PD 181.
- October 18th: 3/8: The entire part 2, Un Perm' au Casino Herman Goering. Page: VN 331; O 278; PD 283.
- November 1st: 4/8: From the beginning of part 3 to "hovering coyly over the pit of death..." Page: VN 455; O 383; PD 389.
- November 15th: 5/8: From "A soft night" to "So somebody has to tell you." Page: VN 561; O 472; PD 480.
- November 29th: 6/8: From "Halfway up the ladder" to the end of part 3. Page: VN 730; O 616; PD 629.
- December 13th: 7/8: From the beginning of Part 4 to "Streets." Page: VN 821; O 692; PD 706.
- December 27th: 8/8: From "Streets" to end of the book. Page: VN 902; O 760; PD 776.
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Book-long sources mentioned in the video, in alphabetical order:
Cowart - Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History
Dalsgaard, Herman & McHale, eds - The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
Herman & Weisenburger - Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, & Freedom
Weisenburger - A Gravity's Rainbow Companion
Another great secondary source you may wish to check out is Mark Richard Siegel's Creative Paranoia in Gravity's Rainbow. As a study of the novel, it is clearly written, well argued, entertaining, cautious in the best of ways and enlightening. Why haven't I mentioned it? Mainly because it's very rare these days - check local libraries but don't get your hopes too high.
Richard Locke's original NY Times review:
archive.nytimes.com/nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Jonathan Lethem's "The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction:"
hipsterbookclub.livejournal.com/1147850.html
The Gravity's Rainbow's Pynchon Wiki homepage:
gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
The Pynchon in Public's reading guide podcast on Gravity's Rainbow (heads-up: they've also recorded three more guides, and will soon do one on Bleeding Edge):
pynchoninpublicpodcast.com/reading-guides/gravitys-rainbow-reading-guide
READING PROJECT'S SCHEDULE
All of these breaks, when they are not marked by the end of one of the novel's four parts, correspond to the last line or first line of a sub-chapter, so it shouldn't be too hard to locate them.
The page number on which each section ends is given. The letters close to the number indicate different editions.
VN: 2013 Vintage edition with multicolor silhouettes of rockets on the cover and red spine.
This edition has the SAME page layout as the 2000 Vintage edition with all the tiny characters and items drawn on the cover over a white field.
O: 1995 Vintage edition with collage of pin-ups, rockets and explosions on the cover.
This edition has the SAME page layout as the original 1973 Viking edition of the novel.
PD: 2005 Penguin Deluxe edition, black and white cover with the silhouette of a rocket.
Thanks to Richard and Hunter for the help with the page numbers!
- September 6th: Introduction.
- September 20th: 1/8: Frontispiece to "Their footprints filled with ice, and a little later they were taken out to sea." Page: VN 109; O 92; PD 94.
- October 4th: 2/8: From "In silence, hidden from her" to the end of part 1. Page: VN 211; O 177; PD 181.
- October 18th: 3/8: The entire part 2, Un Perm' au Casino Herman Goering. Page: VN 331; O 278; PD 283.
- November 1st: 4/8: From the beginning of part 3 to "hovering coyly over the pit of death..." Page: VN 455; O 383; PD 389.
- November 15th: 5/8: From "A soft night" to "So somebody has to tell you." Page: VN 561; O 472; PD 480.
- November 29th: 6/8: From "Halfway up the ladder" to the end of part 3. Page: VN 730; O 616; PD 629.
- December 13th: 7/8: From the beginning of Part 4 to "Streets." Page: VN 821; O 692; PD 706.
- December 27th: 8/8: From "Streets" to end of the book. Page: VN 902; O 760; PD 776.
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