fiction/non/fiction

Hosted by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan, fiction/non/fiction interprets current events through the lens of literature, and features conversations with writers of all stripes, from novelists and poets to journalists and essayists.

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Episodes (334)

Yesterday S9 Ep. 24 Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism
Mar 26th S9 Ep. 23 Ellie Roscher on Fair Game and the Future for Trans Athletes
Mar 19th S9 Ep. 22 Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

fiction/non/fiction

Apr 2, 2026
49¼ minutes
45 MB

Writer Ana Gavrilovska joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about her recent article for Current Affairs, "Thomas Pynchon Saw American Fascism Coming." Gavrilovska reflects on Pynchon’s long career and his interest in writing about systems, how his time as a technical writer at Boeing informs his work, his classic novels Gravity’s Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49, and his new novel, Shadow Ticket. She explains why Shadow Ticket’s fictional Airmont family seems like stand-ins for the Trumps and considers the significance of a food-stuffed film that cheese mogul Bruno Airmont watches with his da...

fiction/non/fiction

S9 Ep. 24 Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism

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