“The Dream of the Gentle Flood”: Thomas Pynchon, Brian Wilson, Neil Young & Los Angeles

Listening to Simon Joyner and Tyler Wilcox’s recent conversation about Neil Young’s song “After the Gold Rush” for All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast, I recalled that I had written an interpretation of the same song in an unpublished essay exploring the recurrent imagined image of the flooding of Los Angeles in the workContinue reading ““The Dream of the Gentle Flood”: Thomas Pynchon, Brian Wilson, Neil Young & Los Angeles”