Steven Moore Keynote Address at the William Gaddis Centenary Conference

[@valpergalit]

The phenomenon Moore mentions about readers latching onto inaccuracies first introduced by bad reviewers is painfully true - and it’s become even worse on the Internet, where anyone can say anything they want about a novel, whether accurate or not, and other people slurp it up regardless. Pynchon readers are notorious for it.

[@AleksandarBloom]

Authors live and die by those speculations and theories, especially those as Pynchon and Gaddis. Let them be. Problem are not those, aforementioned, out-there hypothesis per se, but gullible people who accept them uncritically, particularly those which hold formal, say, academic positions, and then make a law or rule out of them, push them on others. "Whether accurate or not" is beyond anybody anyway, 'play' is more important.

[@bedhead9975]

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[@Johnconno]

So by the time he was in the ground he was a goddamn superstar? 🌹