Bonus Episode - Talkin' It Up with Johan Harstad
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02/28/25 • 80 min
After discussing Part One of Against the Day, we spent some time talking with our guest, Johan Harstad, about whatever came to mind—the music of Hüsker Dü, David Foster Wallace, the films of Ingmar Bergman, and so much else.
We'll be back in two weeks to discuss The Small Rain, the first short story from Pynchon's Slow Learner collection before diving back into Against the Day.
Please check out Johan's work wherever you buy books and follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacktr/
As always, thanks so much for listening!
Email: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mappingthezone.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pynchonpod
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mappingthezonepodcast/
Show art by Brad Wetzel: @bradspersecond (on IG and Reddit) bradspersecond.com
After discussing Part One of Against the Day, we spent some time talking with our guest, Johan Harstad, about whatever came to mind—the music of Hüsker Dü, David Foster Wallace, the films of Ingmar Bergman, and so much else.
We'll be back in two weeks to discuss The Small Rain, the first short story from Pynchon's Slow Learner collection before diving back into Against the Day.
Please check out Johan's work wherever you buy books and follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacktr/
As always, thanks so much for listening!
Email: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mappingthezone.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pynchonpod
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mappingthezonepodcast/
Show art by Brad Wetzel: @bradspersecond (on IG and Reddit) bradspersecond.com
Previous Episode
Against the Day: Part One - The Light Over the Ranges (w/ Johan Harstad)
We've reached the end of The Light Over the Ranges, the first part of Against the Day! We were incredibly lucky to be joined by Johan Harstad, Norwegian author of Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All the Confusion?, The Red Handler and, most recently, Under the Paving Stones, The Beach! We discuss our thoughts with everything that has happened in the story so far, the goofy, fun-natured boy-adventurers known as The Chums of Chance, the historical accuracy of Franz Ferdinand, some controversy around the Norwegian translation of Against the Day, and much more (so much more that there's a bonus epidsode in the works)!
Please check out Johan's work wherever you buy books and follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacktr/
As always, thanks so much for listening!
Email: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mappingthezone.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pynchonpod
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mappingthezonepodcast/
Show art by Brad Wetzel: @bradspersecond (on IG and Reddit) bradspersecond.com
Next Episode
Slow Learner: Introduction & The Small Rain
We're going to be covering the short stories in Slow Learner after each section of Against the Day, as we are going through that. This episode we discuss The Small Rain, Pynchon's first published short story. What we liked, what we didn't like, and how Pynchon has grown as a writer are all topics of conversation and we hope you'll enjoy listening to our ramblings. We'll return to Against the Day in the next episode.
As always, thanks so much for listening!
Email: [email protected]
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mappingthezone.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pynchonpod
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mappingthezonepodcast/
Show art by Brad Wetzel: @bradspersecond (on IG and Reddit) bradspersecond.com
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