VOX Book Club: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Join us in reading and discussing this 1966 postmodernist novella. Join the free book club organized by VOX Delft and Studium Generale! This quarter we’ll be reading The Crying of Lot 49, a 1966 postmodernist novella by American author Thomas Pynchon. It is consistently ranked as one of the best novels of the 20th century, but met with very mixed reviews when it was first published. Wikipedia mentions a review from the New York Times that sounds quite promising: the novel is "a metaphysical thriller in the form of a pornographic comic strip". Let’s explore the work and its context together. We’ll be meeting twice: - Wednesday, November 11th, 12:45pm: Introduction and book distribution in the Nook (TU Delft Library) - TBA, 7:00pm: book discussion (towards the end of the quarter, in December or the first week of January) We’ll have a dozen free copies of the book to give away to the lucky few! For the rest of us there are eBooks and hard copies available at (online) retailers.