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Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of five early short stories by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, originally published in various sources between 1959 and 1964. The book is also notable for its introduction, written by Pynchon.
Pynchon's juvenilia includes several short stories published in his high school student publication Purple and Gold, of which he was also an editor. As an undergraduate at Cornell University , he also co-wrote an unfinished, unpublished libretto for a dystopian musical with fellow student Kirkpatrick Sale .
Pages in category "Short story collections by Thomas Pynchon" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. S. Slow Learner
This story, significantly reworked by Pynchon, appears as Chapter 3 of V. "The Secret Integration" (1964), Pynchon's last published short story, is a sensitively handled coming-of-age tale in which a group of young boys face the consequences of the American policy of racial integration.
Pynchon, the great, press-shy postmodern novelist, will become an open book late next year, when the Huntington makes his papers available to scholars
V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963. [1] It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious ...