Marleen Bar, Nicholas D. Smith, Eds. Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations. Lanham: University Press of America, 1983.
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Brewster, Dorothy. Twane's English Authors Series: Doris Lessing. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1965.
[missing but recommended] Clerc, Charles, Ed. Approaches to Gravity's Rainbow. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1983.
Cowart, David. Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.
Drain, Betsy. Substance Under Pressure: Artistic Coherence and Evolving Form in the Novels of Doris Lessing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Eddins, Dwight. The Gnostic Pynchon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Fahim, Shadia S. Doris Lessing: Sufi Equilibrium and the Form of the Novel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Greene, Gayle. Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Hite, Molly. Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1983.
Hite, Molly. The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminisht Narrative. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Hohmann, Charles. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: A Study of its Conceptual Structure and of Rilke's Influence. New York: Peter Lang, 1986.
Hume, Kathryn. Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's rainbow. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
Kaplan, Carey and Ellen Cronan Rose, Eds. Approaches to teaching Lessing's The Golden Notebook. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1989.
Knapp, Mona. Doris Lessing. New York: Frederick Ungar Pub. Co., 1984.
Levine, George and Davide Leverenz, Eds. Mindful Pleasure: Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
Mattessich, Stefan. Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
Michael, Magali Cornier. Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Moore, Thomas. The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
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Robinson, Sally. Engendering the subject: Gender and Self-Representation in Contemporary Women's Fiction. Albany: State of New York University Press, 1991
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Saxton, Ruth and Jean Tobin, Eds. Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Schlueter, Paul. The Novels of Doris Lessing. Carbondale, Southern Illinois Univeristy Press, 1973.
Seed, David. The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon. Iowa City: Universoty of Iowa Press, 1988.
Sprague, Claire. Critical Essyas on Doris Lessing. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.
Stonehill, Brian. The Self-conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
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Weisenburger,
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The resources on the Internet on Lessing are generally disappointing--in particular, there is very little interpretive matieral on The Golden Notebook.
Interview with Doris Lessying for Foreign Correspondent by Jennifer Byrne. http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s390537.htm
Iinterview of Doris Lessing on the BBC by Susan Hill. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/lessingd1.shtml
"Joyce Carol Oates on Doris Lessing." Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Page. Maintained by Randy Souther. http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/lessing.html
Knowles, Nancy. "Structural
Violence and Narrative Structure in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook."
2002 NEMLA Convention: "(Re)Presentations of Violence and Aggression." Toronto,
Ontario, 12-13 April 2002.
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/sce/Texts_2002/Knowles.html
Lessing, Doris. "Language and the Lunatic Fringe." New York Times Book Review (26 June 1992). http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/14/reviews/lessing-language.html
Mitgang, Herbert. "Mrs.
Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles." New York Times Book Review (22 April 1984). http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-puzzles.html
Scott, Lynda. "Similarities Between Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing " Deep
South 3.2 (Winter 1997). http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol3no2/scott.html
Shapiro, Gail. "A Conversation with Doris Lessing." Woman Kind Educational and Resource Center, Inc. http://www.womankindflp.org/newletter/interviews/lessing.htm
Ware, Tim. Gravity's Rainbow: An Ever-Expanding Web-Guide. http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/index.html
The San Narciso College Thomas Pynchon Home Page. Originated by Penny Padgett. http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/
The Pynchon Notes home page, mainly useful for its links. http://w3.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html
A wide-ranging (but not especially selective) list of links to Pynchon sites, maintained by Susan Danewitz: http://acmeme.org/pynchon/
Spermatikos Logos, a comprehensive Pynchon site. http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/index.html