EPISODE · Jan 20, 2026 · 42 MIN
Postmodern Suspense in The Crying of Lot 49
from Between The Covers · host Jay Ruud and Stacey Margaret Jones
Jay makes his case that The Crying of Lot 49 is the most lovable of Thomas Pynchon’s novels as he dives into the plot of the 1966 conspiracy-theory, suspenseful novel. (It’s also Pynchon’s shortest novel.) Chaos Reader checks in on the progress she’s making in Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain.
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