"Her own tower... was only by accident known as Mexico"

The Crying of Lot 49, Chs. 1 & 2

Hello friends,

I hope you had a restful Memorial Day. In one of our recent sessions, we began exploring The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon—a short novel from 1966 that many see as a key to unlocking the rest of his work.

If you’ve been with us for a while, you know that most of the texts we read are more than a century old. That’s no accident. Older w…