RaveThe Seattle TimesBleeding Edge is vintage Pynchon, a louche yarn of rollicking doomism. Pynchon is the master of technology-as-metaphor...Matryoshka dolls of motivation and meaning, vast interconnectivity, hidden influencers, false identity and real threats — the Internet is an actual version of Pynchon’s fiction. Metaphor-as-technology … Amid Maxine’s misadventures, what Pynchon conjures is the evolution of the military-industrial complex. The great hope of the dot-com era was openness, democracy, innovation. But what has largely emerged is the military-industrial-capital-surveillance complex — a nearly hermetic system of power and wealth — with only a gimlet-eyed New Yorker to map its terrain.
Edmund de Waal
PositiveThe Seattle TimesIt is rare for someone to write as well as Edmund de Waal, all the more since it’s his secondary vocation.
