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from Part III - Approaches and Readings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2019
Is it OK to be a fan? Does every great writer even have fans? No one would ever think to consecrate April 13 as “Henry James in Public Day.” Yet Thomas Pynchon fans around the world pose with their paperbacks every year on his birthday, sipping their Trystero Coffee like monkish communicants partaking of the Eucharist. What is it about Pynchon that inspires such loyalty? Partly, of course, it is the extraordinarily high quality of his work and the exasperating thickheadedness of those unwilling to recognize it. But what are fandom’s gifts to more traditional scholarship, criticism, literary canon-ization?
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