- October 8, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - October 22, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - November 5, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - November 19, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - December 3, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon’s masterpiece, turns 50 this year. The book divided readers from the get-go: the Pulitzer Prize jury recommended it unanimously but the Pulitzer board vetoed the recommendation, awarding no fiction prize for 1973 and calling the novel “turgid,” “unreadable,” and “obscene.” Now’s the time to read or revisit Pynchon’s ludic tome, with its pratfalls and pig costumes, its tales of love and rockets, its scatological sado-masochistic set pieces, and its passages of transcendent lyricism. Over the course of 5 fortnightly meetings, we’ll make our way through the whole enchilada.