APPENDIX - Is GRAVITY'S RAINBOW an autobiography? (W/ Albert Rolls)

Episode 17 of the Slow Learners podcast, hosted by Asher Dark + John Semley, titled "APPENDIX - Is GRAVITY'S RAINBOW an autobiography? (W/ Albert Rolls)" was published on February 20, 2024 and runs 65 minutes.

February 20, 2024 ·65m · Slow Learners

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In this extra, bonus "appendix" episode, Asher lays out his theory of Gravity's Rainbow, as a coded biography of its author, Thomas Pynchon. Also: we're joined by author and researcher Albert Rolls to talk about his book, Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text, which is itself a not-quite-a-biography of Pynchon.

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In this extra, bonus "appendix" episode, Asher lays out his theory of Gravity's Rainbow, as a coded biography of its author, Thomas Pynchon.

Also: we're joined by author and researcher Albert Rolls to talk about his book, Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text, which is itself a not-quite-a-biography of Pynchon.

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