1. Few thoughts on Kennedy Assassination & literature in following tweet.
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2. For me the novel that best evokes era of Kennedy presidency, assassination & aftermath is Updike's Couples (1968), an underrated book.
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3. Updike's novel about evolution of suburban sexual mores in "post-pill paradise" of Kennedy years & after feels precise & accurate.
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4. Critics haven't been kind to Upidke's Couples (only Wilfrid Sheed was very positive) but it links personal & historical expertly
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5. Updike aside, Kennedy assassination's biggest impact has been to initiate the age of the paranoid novel: Pynchon, DeLillo, etc.
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6. Black humor, fabulism, happenings, pop art: were already occurring but given extra juice by Kennedy assassination.
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7. Heller & Vonnegut were oddballs in 1961. After Kennedy assassination & Vietnam they became prophets.
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8. New Wave Sci-Fi was post-Kennedy event: i.e. Ballard's “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race”
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9. Many of the New Wave sci-fi writers were assassination obsessed, none moreso than Barry Malzberg, who keeps going back to JFK.
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