Well, folks, the Chums have flown away, and our cartographers are stuck on ground duty. Don't feel too broken up, though! While the vertical may be abandoned for now, we'll trace and retrace Middle America alongside Merle Rideout and begin zooming in on Dally, a true heroine-to-be. Alchemy, photography, lovelornity, and more, await our kind listeners within this episode of Mapping the Zone.

Next episode: Pages 81-96 (ending on “Veikko was pouring vodka. 'Happy Fourth of July, Webb.'”)

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Films/TV: Godland (2022; dir. Hlynur Pálmason)

Books/Authors: The Public Burning by Robert Coover

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In this inaugural episode of Mapping the Zone, our hosts introduce themselves and discuss a few topics to provide some insight into who they are and what they love about the subject of this podcast, Thomas Pynchon. Also discussed is what listeners can expect of the show going forward and which of Pynchon's books they will discuss first.

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While the Chums made landfall last episode, that descent wasn't even the half of it. In this week's ep, we go deeper into the world staging the Columbian Exposition, and begin acquainting ourselves with the relentless cascade of characters who populate Against the Day. You didn't think we'd be settling down for just another tale of carefree whimsy, did you?

Next episode: Pages 57-80 (ending on “...as if silver were alive, with a soul and a voice, and he’d been working for it as much as it for him.”)

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Films/TV: The Prestige (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2006),

Books/Authors: Progress In Flying Machines: Aeroplanes, October 1893 - https://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Chanute/library/Prog_Aero_Oct1893.html

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Zounds! It's time to take flight with those loveable scamps, The Chums of Chance and head for the extravagent World's Fair!

Join us on our journey into Pynchon's longest novel, Against the Day, and let us know if you have any questions or comments about the book!

***There is a slight audio issue that occurs during our introduction which resulted in the audio dropping out for a few seconds.***

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Come one, come all, gather to hear of the tale of the Loop Garoo Kid and his travails through the Western wasteland as depicted within the covers of Ishmael Reed's second novel, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down! Listen as our correspondent, Will, rants and raves about the depths to be found just at the surface of this gem of a book, let alone whatever great hoard of philosophies and fun might be seen beyond the surface by any so-moved to read it themselves..!

Send your eagerly-awaited copies of The Free-Lance Pallbearers to PO Box #FF00FF Fortymile, Yukon, Canada, care of Mappod Zonus.

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This week on Mapping the Zone, Luke leads us through a discussion of M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy. The trilogy is comprised of the novels Light, Nova Swing, and Empty Space: A Haunting.

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In the newest installment of Kate's bonus episodes, she has turned away from her ordinary method of covering new voices in fiction written by women to talking about one of the authors she almost never stops mentioning on the main program. Yet she has chosen not to cover his primary work, but the less popular, technically unfinished novel that very few people read. Why does she do this? Listen to find out.

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In this week's bonus episode, Cody discusses the metafictional, post-noir detective novel The Red Handler—simultaneously a love letter to and hilarious deconstruction of the hardboiled stories of the 30's and 40's. It's a highly entertaining and brilliantly written novel that anyone who loves hardboiled/noir novels is sure to enjoy.

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