The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Our guests are both Backlisted old hands: Professor Sarah Churchwell, Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and Sam Leith, literary editor of the Spectator. We are discussing the 1966 postmodern novel The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, by some way his shortest book, but no less complex and intriguing for its relative brevity. Sound the muted post horn! Also in this episode, Andy extols the subtle virtues of former guest Susie Boyt’s novel, Loved and Missed while John discovers the Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky’s dramatic sequence, Deaf Republic, which tells the stories of a fictional town falling under foreign occupation. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 07:38 - Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt. 14:43 - Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky. 22:16 - The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sarah, how's your book going?
0:25.8	It's going.
0:27.8	It's going.
0:28.8	It's going in on Monday.
0:29.8	I feel like you've been on before Sarah and you've been up against a deadline, and so
0:35.7	is appearing on Backlisted?
0:38.4	Does that help you finish a book or does it delay the book?
0:43.4	We'll have to see what people think of it when it comes out, whether this, whether
0:48.1	I felt the final hurdle because I came on tonight, because I'm definitely going to blame
0:52.8	you if the reviewers don't like it.
0:55.1	That seems fair.
0:57.2	Because I could have fixed everything about it in the two hours that we're going to take
1:01.0	to do this if it's bad.
1:02.8	That's right.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:04.8	Sam, where are you calling from?
1:08.0	I'm calling from Glamrs East Finchley in North London.
1:11.5	Have you managed to get out of East Finchley much?
1:14.8	Barely at all.
1:16.0	I haven't been to my office at the spectator for approximately two years now.
1:21.8	So I'm a complete shut in.
1:23.5	I'm becoming more pensionian by the day.
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