I finished Infinite Jest in January and, at the behest of a certain someone, recently picked up Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day. Once again, I find myself meandering through a lengthy postmodern tome, this time set in a reimagined version of turn of the century America. There are windships and æther, anarchists and Nikola Tesla, [...]
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