Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
David Simon and George Pelecanos' show makes us uncomfortable about sex work. But it's to better understand capitalism. We discuss their exploration of community, corruption and the production of both this show and the labor that inspired it.
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- The Deuce, Season One
- Last Exit to Brooklyn
- Taxi Driver
- American Gigolo
- Light Sleeper
- The Night Porter
Additional Resources:
- The Deuce and the Birth of Porn
- ‘The Deuce’ Recalls Sex and Sleaze in 1970s Times Square
- The Deuce isn't about sex. It's about capitalism.
- How ‘The Deuce’ Predicts Modern-Day New York
- The Deuce: Season One Ratings
We try to unpack what little is known about this author, while providing a "succinct" description of the book. Along the way we discuss the publishing industry, book awards, obscenity, themes and the mythical reputation this tome has garnered over the years.
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- Gravity's Rainbow
- Inherent Vice
- The Crying of Lot 49
- V.
- American Flagg
- Divided States of Hysteria
- Casanova
- Satellite Sam
- Moby-Dick
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- The Kills
- Field Notes
Additional Resources:
- George Plimpton on Thomas Pynchon's V.
- V. Squared
- Pynchon from A to V
- Duncan, J. (2013). Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Salem Press Encyclopedia Of Literature.
- Muste, J. M., & Weisenburger, S. C. (2014). Thomas Pynchon. Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia.
- Herman, L., & Weisenburger, S. (2013). Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Pulitzer Jurors Dismayed on Pynchon
- Pulitzer.org
- Pulitzer People are no Prize
- Thomas Pynchon's letter to Bruce Allen
- L. McLaughlin, R., (2002). Unreadable Stares: Imperial Narratives and the Colonial Gaze in Gravity's Rainbow. Pynchon Notes. (50-51), pp.83–96. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/pn.72
- Thomas Pynchon shows us how white writers can avoid appropriation
- Pynchon’s Gravity's Rainbow: The V-2 Rocket Cartel as Multinational Corporate Conspiracy
- Rocket Power