Tag: Slagiatt

• Tignanello

  

  Bleeding Edge doesn’t see to be many people’s favourite Pynchon. A bit too narrow in its concerns maybe, or a little too careful with its tone; not grand enough to compete with the bigger books, not zany enough to stand up to Lot 49 or Inherent Vice. Not saying I dislike it though. The tender […]

  mjhorn

  June 13, 2020

  Bleeding Edge, Wine

  Italy, Maxine, Slagiatt

• Nero d’Avola

  Early in Bleeding Edge, Maxine pays a visit to the VC (which I’m assuming is venture capitalist) who’d supported hwgaahwgh.com (which address now conveniently directs one to the book’s wiki). The VC is Rockwell “Rocky” Slagiatt, who’s dropped his surname’s terminal vowel in order “to sound more anglo,” despite then “becoming disingenuously ethnic again” in Maxine’s […]

  mjhorn

  July 29, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Wine

  Food, Italy, Maxine, Nero d’Avola, Pynchon, Slagiatt