Brett Biebel teaches writing and literature at Augustana College. He is the author of 48 BLITZ and Winter Dance Party, and his writing has appeared in SmokeLong Quartlery, The Masters Review, Alien Magazine, Hobart, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in the Quad Cities.
"Brett Biebel's strength is his lucid, engaging style. This fellow writes wonderfully and with authority--and economically. Would that such prose were more common in the profession! Moreover, Biebel's own knowledge and research provide abundant helpful contextualization of Pynchonian arcana--meanwhile demonstrating a first-rate grasp of the novel's rich thematic content.--David Cowart ""author of The Tribe of Pyn: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period"" Fans of Pynchon have long needed a guidebook, a vade mecum (Latin for 'go with me') for Mason & Dixon, one of Pynchon's masterworks. Now we have a reliable one. It won't just help us with its plethora of puns, references, and allusions. It will deepen the book's humor--and its tragedy.--Peter Schmidt ""author of Sitting in Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920"""