Tag Archives: Against-The-Day
Mark Twain’s Ghost
The Loquacious Haruspex offers this marvellous picture of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) in Nikola Tesla’s laboratory. Tesla can be seen in the background. The post points out that Clemens was born and he died under Halley’s Comet (which I … more…
World’s Fair
Fresh from the ‘Chums of Chance’ opening section of Against The Day, I scratched up a few pages concerning airships and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Expect plenty more AtD-related bloggery here, over the next few months. None of … more…
Against the Day, at last
I got my copy yesterday. I didn’t pre-order, in the end, deciding that actually walking into a book shop, paying for it and carrying it away would be a more satisfying experience. First impression: the cover took me a little … more…
Against the Day extract
Yes, indeedy. On the Wikipedia page for Against the Day, we find a publisher’s synopsis concluding with the words, If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to … more…
Against the Day: more details
More developments with the new Pynchon book: the publication date has been moved forward a couple of weeks to November 21st in the States, although its still December 5th in the UK. Strangely, the page count has also changed, but … more…