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Publications

New York Times Book Review

The Deadly Sins/Sloth; Nearer, My Couch, to Thee

Adventures in acedia, from Aquinas to Bartleby.

Thomas Pynchon New York Times Book Review Jun 1993 10min Permalink

History

Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?

On Luddites, “bands of men, organized, masked, anonymous, whose object was to destroy machinery used mostly in the textile industry,” and their literary spawn.

Thomas Pynchon New York Times Book Review Oct 1984 Permalink