S3E38: Where are the campy cli-fi series? Why do we only have literary climate fiction?!—w/ Daniel Backer, author
Reversing Climate Change
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The Crying of Lot 49
Pinchon was a big fan of dive novels and genre fiction. His books are kind of like a rump and a play on this traditional genre, he says. With the crying of lot 49, you have a housewife substituted for the smooth talking detective who relies on his intuition and wit. She has a lens of tears that are always filling her eyes that seemingly distort the information that's going through them. And she relies on this instead of a logical thread tracking suspects.
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