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2008-03-15 10:51:00
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Sixties Novels, Part 52


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NOG, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Random House, 1969

This is the penultimate entry in our year-long series, and it's nice to feature a really good book by an author who's still writing. Rudy Wurlitzer's new book, THE DROP EDGE OF YONDER, appears next month. I've written a long essay about it and his career, to be featured at the BARNES & NOBLE REVIEW. I'll link when it appears.

Meanwhile, though, this first novel by Wurlitzer is a stoned gem, a surreal phantasmagoria of identity confusion.

Here's the beat-up front and back covers to the 1970 paperback reprint by Pocket Books.


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Can you imagine any big publisher today putting the word "bullshit" in giant type on a back cover like that?

Posted by Paul DiFi.

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Anonymous

March 15 2008, 18:28:34 UTC 4 years ago

NOGgin'

I ran NOG by Gordon as a potential Curiosity for the F&SF back pages. He wasn't too enthusiastic.

Todd Mason

[info]pgdf

March 16 2008, 19:18:39 UTC 4 years ago

Re: NOGgin'

He's missing out on a sure thing!

Anonymous

March 15 2008, 18:39:59 UTC 4 years ago

NOGgin'

I ran NOG by Gordon a few years back as a potential "Curiosity" for F&SF's back pagaes, but he wasn't too enthusiastic.

Todd Mason

Anonymous

March 15 2008, 18:42:42 UTC 4 years ago

NOGgin' off

Maybe it was the devolving repetition!

TM

[info]pgdf

March 16 2008, 19:24:18 UTC 4 years ago

Re: NOGgin' off

His new book is perhaps his best yet....

[info]crowleycrow

March 15 2008, 20:00:40 UTC 4 years ago

They wouldn't dare, since the novel of bullshit is bringing in the books for them still.

[info]crowleycrow

March 15 2008, 20:02:43 UTC 4 years ago

I meant "bucks" of course. Books too, maybe: publishers rooting through piles of submissions and moaning "These novels of bullshit are much worse than they used to be! If this keeps up the novel of bullshit will one day be dead!"

[info]pgdf

March 16 2008, 19:25:26 UTC 4 years ago

Sturgeon's Law applies across all decades....

[info]pgdf

March 16 2008, 19:24:52 UTC 4 years ago

A precise and accurate analysis!

[info]jamesenge

March 15 2008, 20:45:55 UTC 4 years ago

Well, they might put it on the front cover... But I realize a university press isn't the same as a mass market publisher.

[info]pgdf

March 16 2008, 19:26:16 UTC 4 years ago

That's pretty radical, nonetheless....
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