YouTuber Chris Via Talks the New Bookchat
What Gore Vidal called "the bookchat world" is a fractured thing in 2024, but whatever its modern shape might be, Chris Via's multi-hour video essays are a part of it.
Last year I finally read Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon, a big-difficult bucket list book that’s been on my shelf for ten years and finally hit my lap because 2023 was the 50th anniversary, it …