Nolan Can Read

North America/USA/NY

June 25, 2023

Mason & Dixon

By Thomas Pynchon

I think this is likely the best of Thomas Pynchon, one of the great novels of my lifetime, although I enjoyed his Bleeding Edge more. I don’t know that I’ve read a better book that was written since I’ve been...

June 25, 2023

Inherent Vice

By Thomas Pynchon

When it comes down to it, this is basically just Bleeding Edge but with more Genre. Enjoyable enough as a detective mystery, and the counterculture voice is kind of fun - and, as I listened to the audiobook, Ron McLarty’s...

June 25, 2023

The Snow Leopard

By Peter Matthiessen

Reading this brought to mind Susan Sontag’s On Photography, or at least what I remember of it/what I imagine it as saying, having read it a number of years ago. Not to say that they have anything in common or...

January 26, 2023

Bleeding Edge

By Thomas Pynchon

Quick (for Pynchon) fun (for Pynchon) jaunt through conspiratorial world of fresh-from-the-dot-com-collapse Silicon Alley, NYC; a modern take on film noir but like in books and also with computer stuff. A good mess to untangle with some snazzy characters and...