>My man Pynchon is pretty out on the left, but with more apparent
>sympathies for anarchism than any particular brand of communism or
>whatever.
>
Fair enough though so far I have found all his books impenetrable with
the exception of Gravity's Rainbow.
What did you think of the Mason/Dixon book?
>
>But the strangest, and in my opinion best, development at the nexus of
>politics and literature is the crew of crime writers who are mixing
>left critique, social realism and neo-noir to write some of the best
>novels and tv shows out there. Pelecanos, Price, Lippman, Simon,
>Lehane... besides the Wire, which I of course love fiercely, their
>crime novels are so great!
>
Give us some titles. Also, does anyone on this list have any idea about
how to get the 4th season of the Wire?
Joanna